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Help I Caught it Abroad is back with another hour long special looking at the unusual and flesh-creeping bugs and illnesses that are picked up when people travel overseas.
This time the programme meets the doctors and nurses at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine as they tackle patients who’ve been bitten by snakes and monkeys and infected with parasites that attack the liver and eyeballs.
The school, which is one of the world’s leading research centres, is at the forefront of developing new treatments for many of the world’s most dangerous tropical diseases and the film follows doctors as they treat travellers suffering from a range of conditions including malaria and even leprosy.
And one volunteer is seen having a lung wash and an invasive probe into his stomach.
The film also features the school’s ‘secret room’ which is home to a collection of some of the world’s most dangerous snakes which are kept for producing anti-venom that saves hundreds of lives worldwide.
The room also houses colonies of bugs and mosquitoes and the film captures one of them being fed a ‘blood meal’ on a doctors’ arm.
Help I Caught it Abroad 2 is a Special Edition Films production for ITV1. The director is Rob Gill, the DV director is David Lawrence and the executive producer is Ravinder Chahal.
Last edited: Thursday, 26 August 2010
