In the mangrove swamps of Borneo, Mike checks out the claws of a mangrove crab and the healing properties of the snakehead fish.
Mike visits the Gomantong Caves in Borneo, full of a million bats and a hundred foot pile of bat faeces. The place is crawling wit...
Mike goes to Labok Bay Sanctuary, for the proboscis monkey feeding time.
Mike Leahy visits a weaver ants nest in the Borneo jungle.
Mike tries to avoid catching body lice by washing his clothes by the Ganges.
The sacred waterway is used as a swimming pool, laundry, bathroom and rubbish tip. It's so heavily polluted at Varanasi that it's...
Cows may be sacred in India but they are responsible for spreading the single most deadly infectious disease known to man-tubercul...
Dr Mike Leahy can't stress enough, the importance of washing fruit and vegetables if you want to avoid unsavoury diseases such as...
Mike gets under the skin of scabies in Mumbai, one of the largest cities on the planet.
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 trauma an...
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 potent...
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. It...
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