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Body Snatchers reveals the secret life of the creatures that live deep inside our bodies. Featuring case studies, computer simulation, specialist filming inside the body, and an array of leading experts, this three-part series dispels the myth that we live in a clean and sanitised world.
Using the real-life experiences of ordinary people, the series reveals the devious ways in which parasites can slip inside the human body, highlights the gruesome effects that these invaders can have and explores how we can avoid becoming their latest victim.
Body Snatchers investigates the continual battle being played out between parasites and their human hosts. Though parasites are ruthless invaders, it is not really in their best interests to kill us. Many just weaken their victims in order to continue leeching from the ultimate food source. Body Snatchers shows how these alien invaders evade our most sophisticated defences, distracting our immune system, confusing its signals and even disguising themselves in human molecules.
Body Snatchers infiltrates the world of the micro-parasite, the most deadly form of them all. From bubonic plague and malaria to tuberculosis, Ebola and SARS, parasites are hitching rides in their human hosts and colonising the world, provoking fear across the planet, crossing the species gap and causing millions of deaths. They even accompany us into space. There is nowhere we can hide.
