Discovery Turbo 2013 1 season 6 eps Returning series

Bugs, Bites And Parasites

Name: Bugs, Bites And Parasites
Genre: Documentary

2013 1 season 6 eps

5.5

Season 1

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Season 1

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45 min

S1 · E1 · Jul 21, 2013

Episode 1 Episode 1

A team of medics fights tropical diseases, beginning with a girl who finds a lump next to her elbow, and a woman who hopes the treatment for malaria will not harm her unborn baby

45 min

S1 · E2 · Jul 28, 2013

Episode 2 Episode 2

Dr Nick Beeching examines a twenty year-old windsurfer who suspects a spider has laid eggs in the infected wound on his back. Dr Beeching also investigates a patient whose foot has been attacked by a flesh-eating super bug that’s been treated with larval therapy. Dr David Lalloo treats a woman who has been the unknowing host to parasitic worms for the past fifteen years. In Africa, he meets a young boy who’s been hit by an invasion of the same parasites which have been laying hundreds of eggs in his bladder.

45 min

S1 · E3 · Aug 4, 2013

Episode 3 Episode 3

Dr David Lalloo diagnoses a returning traveller with a suspected scorpion sting. This episode also follows the work of Dr Lalloo in Africa and confronts a parasitic infection which causes abnormal swelling to the victims’ legs. Dr Bertie Squire investigates another parasite which is lurking in the gut of a young woman. The parasite proves resistant to treatment. A woman returns from a holiday on Madeira and is struck down with a knock-out fever with a challenging prognosis.

45 min

S1 · E4 · Aug 11, 2013

Episode 4 Episode 4

Dr Helen Winslow treats a charity fundraiser who visited West Africa with a maggot infestation. In Tanzania Dr David Lalloo is on the frontline of the global fight against malaria. Dr Tim O’ Dempsey treats a holiday maker who has returned from Tunisia with a mystery lesion that won’t heal and treats a medical student who thinks he’s picked up a parasitic worm invasion after going for an ill-advised swim. Major Tom Fletcher is called to the emergency department to help a patient with breathing difficulties following a trip to the Caribbean.

45 min

S1 · E5 · Aug 18, 2013

Episode 5 Episode 5

Dr David Lalloo tracks venomous snakes in Sri Lanka, and observes the deadly effects their bites have on unsuspecting victims. Dr Bertie Squire investigates an unsolved mystery illness spreading through a patient’s lung. Major Tom Fletcher is challenged to diagnose a sick traveller with a unrecognisable bug. A junior doctor new to the Unit is confronted with the disfiguring Leishmaniasis parasite and in search of a cure, the patient must go through a gruelling treatment.

45 min

S1 · E6 · Aug 25, 2013

Episode 6 Episode 6

Dr Tim O’Dempsey treats a returning traveller, from the jungle in Peru and returned with eight maggots in her ear. Snake bite expert, David Lalloo, is confronted by a patient from Warrington who’s been bitten by his pet, a highly venomous, Samar Cobra. Dr Bertie Squire is forced to put the Tropical and Infectious Disease Unit in Liverpool on high alert, fearing a patient has returned home with one of the world’s most virulent killers. Doctors fear a young boy may have a parasitic invasion caused by the bite of the Tsetse Fly. A woman, who definitely has this condition, undergoes treatment.

6 episodes in Season 1

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Bugs, Bites & Parasites: Tropical Diseases Uncovered follows a team of medics in their fight against tropical diseases both in the wards of the Royal Liverpool Hospital and across the developing world. Cases span from returning holiday makers experiencing terrifying symptoms to entire villages brought to their knees by sudden viral outbreaks.

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Total runtime 4h 30m · Episode length 45 min · Country United States

Show info

Premiered

July 21, 2013

Final episode

August 25, 2013

Status

Returning series

Network

Discovery Turbo

Country

United States

Type

Scripted

Episode length

45 min

Total runtime

4h 30m

Original language

English

Some details come from TheTVDB.

Bugs, Bites And Parasites