Parasitic Problems—Clive Shiff, PhD—Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Johns Hopkins University

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Professor Clive Shiff is an entomologist who shares fascinating insight into his work.

Tune in to discover:

What sleeping sickness is and how it's transmitted
What it was like living in the African Bush for over two years and coming face-to-face with wild animals
Where schistosomiasis is found, how it is contracted, and what it does to the body

For two years, Shiff lived in the African bush, where he encountered elephants, rhinoceros, leopards, hippopotamuses, and many other animals face-to-face. He shares his experiences, what he learned during this time, and what he did to avoid deadly parasites and diseases like malaria and sleeping sickness.

Shiff discusses the efforts to eradicate malaria in the 1950s, parasitic diseases such as sleeping sickness and schistosomiasis, what therapies and sanitations efforts have been implemented in response to schistosomiasis and why it has been so difficult to combat, and how he is trying to improve diagnostics for parasitic diseases.

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0:41.0	My guest today hails originally from Zimbabwe and then South
0:45.4	Africa. His name is Clive Schiff. He's a professor now in the Department of Molecular Microbiology
0:50.8	and Immunology at Johns Hopkins University and he's been studying tropical
0:55.9	parasitic diseases like schistomyosis if I can if I can pronounce that right and malaria
1:01.5	etc so Cliff thank or Clive thanks for coming how you doing and
1:03.7	pronounce that right and the malaria etc. So Cliff or Clive thanks for coming.
1:04.4	How you doing?
1:05.2	It's a pleasure to be here.
1:08.2	Yeah, so how long have you been studying infectious diseases and you know what
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