In the mangrove swamps of Borneo, Mike checks out the claws of a mangrove crab and the healing properties of the snakehead fish.
(04:54)Mike visits the Gomantong Caves in Borneo, full of a million bats and a hundred foot pile of bat faeces. The place is crawling...
(03:12)Mike goes to Labok Bay Sanctuary, for the proboscis monkey feeding time.
(03:09)Mike Leahy visits a weaver ants nest in the Borneo jungle.
(03:13)Mike tries to avoid catching body lice by washing his clothes by the Ganges.
(03:09)The sacred waterway is used as a swimming pool, laundry, bathroom and rubbish tip. It's so heavily polluted at Varanasi that...
(03:12)Cows may be sacred in India but they are responsible for spreading the single most deadly infectious disease known to...
(03:13)Dr Mike Leahy can't stress enough, the importance of washing fruit and vegetables if you want to avoid unsavoury diseases such...
(03:10)Mike gets under the skin of scabies in Mumbai, one of the largest cities on the planet.
(03:11)It’s one of the nastiest bugs Mike's hunted so far – with an agonising and toxic bite that can send your body into major...
(04:32)On a piece of parkland, very close to Hanoi, Mike's on the hunt for the Malayan krait. This snake's venom is ten times more...
(03:11)Mike buys a rat trap in Metal Street to catch a rat to catch a flea, the source of a deadly disease thought to be in the past....
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