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In the early 2000s, he suffered from heart problems but recovered by 2004 and launched his third expedition to
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plant and was capable of delivering lethal electric shocks to its victims. In 1992, Mackerle made a second eight-week trip to
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creature. Mackerle recalls having a vivid dream about the worm, and states that he woke up with unexplained blood-filled boils on his back. He collected enough photographs, footage and data to make a documentary on his trips to
Mongolia, broadcast on Czech television in 1993 as
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