Bite Me With Dr. Mike Premiers Tonight on the Travel Channel
Bite Me with Dr. Mike, a new show premiering tonight on the Travel Channel, brings a new twist to the "science guy risks life and limb to film dangerous critters" genre of television shows. Think National Geographic meets Jackass.
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Dr. Mike Leahy, a former motorcycle mechanic who earned a Ph.D. in virology from Oxford, travels the globe in search of critters that want to suck, bite, sting or feed on his body. And when he finds them, he lets them do it. I hope this guy has had a lot of vaccinations and carries a big first aid kit on location.
The premier episode takes Dr. Mike to Brazil, in search of the worst that country has to offer an adventurous traveler. Among the insects and other tiny terrors Dr. Mike encounters in Brazil: fire ants, which send him to an emergency room; a wandering spider, whose bite causes an embarrassing side effect which I won't describe here; bullet ants, believed to cause the most painful sting on Earth; and assassin bugs, vectors of Chagas disease.
Watch a sneak preview of Dr. Mike on Youtube, and then tune in to the Travel Channel tonight at 10 pm to see the premier of Bite Me with Dr. Mike.
Comments
Is this a new crocodile hunter
wanna-be?
What have we become? Cannot we get curious
or exicted about something
without a russian roulette game?
Or has the reality-show craze and its fame-hunger drive, made us all dumb and ready to everything just for the sake of getting attention?