A toddler is infected with meningococcal disease caused by a bacterium; After surgery for an abdominal tumor, doctors accidentally leave a 13-inch retractor inside a patient; A seven-year-old boy is infected with a brain amoeba.
A young boy's nose is invaded by a bacterium after swimming in a lake; A model's breast implant become infected with aspergillus niger; A young woman's lungs are infected with a fungus.
A toddler who is started eating cat food is diagnosed with toxacara. A man suffers complications from diverticulitis when ESBL E. coli escape through his perforated colon. A New Mexico man is infected with bubonic plague.
An ovarian teratoma causes a woman to hallucinate and exhibit strange behavior; A young boy is infected with a flu virus that attacks his muscles causing the tissue to break down; A man having gastrointestinal problems is suffering from blastocystis hominis parasite.
A teenager's hand is infected by a bacterium from her family's aquarium; A man aspirates the pull tab from a soft drink can; A young man has meningitis from rat lung-worms that have traveled to his brain.
Christmas time is here, and these three victims each receive a monstrous gift. In Florida, woman is out Christmas shopping when she suddenly feels a stabbing pain in her eye so severe that she believes she sees shadows of worms in her eye.
A family's cruise ship vacation turns into a living nightmare when their two year old swallows a sinister monster. A mother of two is plagued with a mysterious infection. Deadly parasites hijack the brain of a six-year-old boy.
It's Christmas, and a young globe-trotting couple returns home for some holiday cheer only to discover some sly stowaways that. bite, suck and consume the flesh. A family man discovers that something is eating his heart out, literally.
A war veteran, a PhD scientist, and a newborn, all clinging to life by a string. In Tennessee, new parents are horrified when a deadly infection pushes their baby daughter to the brink of death.