Monsters Inside Me · SEASON 5
A Menace in My Own Backyard
Episode 3 · 2014-10-23

- Documentary
Episode overview
A 23-year-old athlete/construction worker suffers multiple grand mal seizures and high fevers from eastern equine encephalitis; a hard-edged tough guy suffers severe stomach pains and loss of appetite from accidentally swallowing a grill bristle; a 17-year-old cheerleader who recently got her driver's license suffers a swollen, itchy eye and excruciating eye pains from Acanthamoeba keratitis she got from contact lenses.
60 minutes
Season 5 episodes
1. My Daughter's Going Crazy2014-10-09
2. West Nile Attack!2014-10-16
3. A Menace in My Own Backyard2014-10-23
4. The Killer in the Lake2014-11-06
5. There's a Maggot Crawling in My What?2014-11-13
6. Vampire Parasites Attack2014-11-20
7. A Holiday in the Hospital2014-12-04
8. My Body Is Rotting2014-12-11
9. The Brain Colonizer2014-12-11
10. I Smell Like Death2014-12-18