759 - Book Club: What If Fungi Win?
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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From mushrooms to microscopic organisms, fungi represent a serious—and still relatively unexplored—threat to human health. Dr. Arturo Casadevall returns to the podcast to talk about his new book, What If Fungi Win? which looks at why certain fungal infections take off, why they're so hard to treat, and why we will most certainly see more of them with climate change and treatment-resistant strains. Learn more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
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| 0:29.6 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:33.6 | Today, the hidden threat to the human race from fungi. Dr. Arturo Casa de Val, an infectious |
| 0:40.9 | disease specialist and chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns |
| 0:46.1 | Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, talks with Dr. Josh Darcine about his new book entitled |
| 0:51.8 | What If Fungi Win? Let's listen. |
| 0:56.3 | Dr. Arturo Kasidabal, thank you so much for joining me again today on Public Health on Call. |
| 1:01.8 | This time to talk about your new book, which is called What If Fungi Win? |
| 1:07.3 | You've written this book with Stephanie Desmond, one of the hosts of public health on call. |
| 1:12.1 | And when I picked it up, my eyes were really drawn to this sentence of the many ways to die that we're actively afraid of. |
| 1:19.6 | Nuclear war, viruses, bacteria, parasites, cancer, and violent crime, to name a few, one assassin that doesn't usually cross our minds is killer fungi. And when I was |
| 1:30.0 | done reading that sentence, I thought that assassin has now crossed my mind and I want to learn more |
| 1:35.6 | about it. Before we get into all the ways that fungi can kill us, could you maybe remind me |
| 1:42.9 | and our listeners what a fungus is? |
| 1:45.9 | So a fungus is a class of organisms. |
| 1:49.1 | A fungus includes mushrooms. |
| 1:51.4 | A fungus also includes yeast that you use to make bread and beer. |
| 1:56.3 | So they are related. |
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