This Week in Parasitism
Hosted by Christina Naula and Vincent Racaniello and Daniel Griffin · Vincent Racaniello
4.9from 533 ratings
- 289
- Episodes
- 57
- Transcribed
- 533
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2009
- First episode
- 21M
- YouTube views
About This Week in Parasitism
TWiP is a monthly netcast about eukaryotic parasites. Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier, science Professors from Columbia University, deconstruct parasites, how they cause illness, and how you can prevent infections.
- Publisher
- Vincent Racaniello
- Category
- science · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 13 Nov 2009
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
57 of 289 episodes have a transcript.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
TWiP 289: Dogs, Parasites, and an Exhausted Immune System
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
TWiP 288: Taco Bell and the Case of the Runny Jobbies
8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
TWiP 287: A Vaccine Against Schistosomiasis? SchistoShield Heads to Phase 2
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TWiP 289: Dogs, Parasites, and an Exhausted Immune System
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So there may be newer data, but that's the newest that I could find. And actually from these countries, there were just under 13,000 new cases reported to the WHO. Although the true number is probably a lot higher than that because of underreporting. And almost four in five of these reported cases were in Eastern Africa, followed by Brazil. And cases on the Indian subcontinent, which is where we also had a lot of leishmaniasis, they have fallen by over 90% over the past 10 years or so, thanks to an elimination program that is there. So visceral leishmaniasis is caused by disease. So we have Lychmania donovani in East Africa and South Asia. […]
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- YouTube views
- 20,783,330
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 461 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 72 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 91 / 100
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- Quality
- 87
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 97
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Who hosts This Week in Parasitism?
Christina Naula and Vincent Racaniello and Daniel Griffin host the show. Published by Vincent Racaniello.
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