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video: https://youtu.be/O4KGfG2UJmo Join us for an insightful conversation with Craig Rowland as we dive into Linux security, cybersecurity, and the evolution of hacking from BBS days to modern threats. We explore how Sandfly Security's agentless approach protects Linux systems, the role of AI in cybersecurity, and whether you really need antivirus on Linux. Plus, we discuss startup scaling, Defcon's rise, and the cleverest Linux attack we've seen. Don't miss it! Forum Discussion Thread (https://destinationlinux.net/forum) Download as MP3 (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/32f28071-0b08-4ea1-afcc-37af75bd83d6/b3a44155-6616-48f2-8fe8-f269a49f9725.mp3) Support the show by becoming a patron at tuxdigital.com/membership (https://tuxdigital.com/membership) or get some swag at tuxdigital.com/store (https://tuxdigital.com/store) Hosted by: Ryan (DasGeek) = dasgeek.net (https://dasgeek.net) Jill Bryant = jilllinuxgirl.com (https://jilllinuxgirl.com) Michael Tunnell = michaeltunnell.com (https://michaeltunnell.com) Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:56 TWIL 300 Celebration 00:05:11 Community Feedback 00:21:16 Agentless Linux Security: A Chat with Craig Rowland 00:21:46 Cybersecurity in the Military: Craig's Wildest Lessons 00:26:51 Scaling Startups & Catching the Eye of Tech Giants 00:29:27 Old-School Hacking: BBS and Salvaged Tech 00:32:52 From Small Rooms to Global Stages: The Rise of Defcon 00:35:21 Protecting Linux: The Sandfly Security Story 00:40:01 The Magic Behind Sandfly's Agentless Security 00:43:21 Assuming Linux Is Secure? Think Again! 00:47:16 Should You Run Antivirus on Linux? 00:54:15 Breaking Into Cybersecurity: Advice for Linux Enthusiasts 00:58:41 Distro Talk: What's on Craig's Machine? 00:59:58 Sandfly for the Desktop: Home Edition Arrives! 01:05:15 How AI is Changing the Cybersecurity Game 01:13:11 Linux is Everywhere—How Does Sandfly Keep Up? 01:15:59 The Most Clever Linux Attack We've Seen 01:20:51 Catching Hackers in the Act: A Sandfly Success Story 01:23:03 Drift Detection: Now with More Horsepower! 01:23:42 Think Fast! It's Lightning Round Time 01:28:38 SCALE 22x is coming 01:30:03 Red Hat Summit 2025 01:30:47 Support the Show 01:32:36 Outro Links: TWIL 300 Celebration https://thisweekinlinux.com/300 (https://thisweekinlinux.com/300) Community Feedback https://destinationlinux.net/comments (https://destinationlinux.net/comments) https://destinationlinux.net/forum (https://destinationlinux.net/forum) Craig Rowland of Sandfly Security https://destinationlinux.net/sandfly (https://destinationlinux.net/sandfly) Discount Code: destination50 Defcon https://defcon.org/ (https://defcon.org/) SCALE 22x is coming https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x) Red Hat Summit 2025 https://www.redhat.com/en/summit (https://www.redhat.com/en/summit) Support the Show https://tuxdigital.com/membership (https://tuxdigital.com/membership) https://store.tuxdigital.com/ (https://store.tuxdigital.com/)

Risky Business returns for its 19th year! Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news and there is a whole bunch of it. They discuss: The incoming Trump administration guts the CSRB Biden's last cyber Executive Order has sensible things in it China's breach of the US Treasury gets our reluctant admiration Ross Ulbricht - the Dread Pirate Roberts of Silk Road fame - gets his Trump pardon New year, same shameful comedy Forti- and Ivanti- bugs US soldier behind the Snowflake hacks faces charges after a solid Krebs-ing And much, much (much! after a month off) more. This week's episode is sponsored by Sandfly Security, who make a Linux EDR solution. Founder Craig Rowland joins to talk about how the Linux ecosystem struggles with its lack of standardised approaches to detection and response. If you've got a telco full of unix, and people are asking how much Salt Typhoon you've got in there… Sandfly's tools are probably what you're looking for. If you like your Business like us… - Risky - then we're hiring! We're looking for someone to help with audio and video production for our work, manage our socials, and if you're also into the Cybers… even better. Position is remote, with a preference for timezones amenable to Australia/NZ. Drop us a line: editorial at risky.biz. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes POLITICO Pro | Article | Acting DHS chief ousts CSRB experts, other department advisers Treasury's sanctions office hacked by Chinese government, officials say Strengthening America's Resilience Against the PRC Cyber Threats | CISA AT&T, Verizon say they evicted Salt Typhoon from their networks Risky Bulletin: Looking at Biden's last cyber executive order - Risky Business Internet-connected devices can now have a label that rates their security | Reuters US sanctions prominent Chinese cyber company for role in Flax Typhoon attacks FCC ‘rip and replace' provision for Chinese tech tops cyber provisions in defense bill CIA nominee tells Senate he, too, wants to go on cyber offense | CyberScoop Trump tells Justice Department not to enforce TikTok ban for 75 days Judge rules NSO Group is liable for spyware hacks targeting 1,400 WhatsApp user devices | The Record from Recorded Future News Unpacking WhatsApp's Legal Triumph Over NSO Group | Lawfare Time to check if you ran any of these 33 malicious Chrome extensions Console Chaos: A Campaign Targeting Publicly Exposed Management Interfaces on Fortinet FortiGate Firewalls - Arctic Wolf Ongoing attacks on Ivanti VPNs install a ton of sneaky, well-written malware Researchers warn of active exploitation of critical Apache Struts 2 flaw DOJ deletes China-linked PlugX malware off more than 4,200 US computers Russian internet provider confirms its network was ‘destroyed' following attack claimed by Ukrainian hackers | The Record from Recorded Future News Ukraine restores state registers after suspected Russian cyberattack | The Record from Recorded Future News Hackers claim to breach Russian state agency managing property, land records | The Record from Recorded Future News U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions – Krebs on Security

TWiP solves the case of the woman who went to Belize and notices a lesion on her face, and presents a new clinical case for you to solve. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Links for this episode Join the MicrobeTV Discord server Letters read on TWiP 251 New Case Recent case, Arusha hospital, 1800 m, 28 yo comes in, has been visiting game parks. Developing fevers, malaise, bad headaches, body aches, somnolent. Blood smears negative, no malaria. Repeat blood smear, see something extra-erythrocytic. This gives them the diagnosis. HIV neg, no toxic habits, no history. Symptom onset about a week ago. Rest of family is ok.  Become a patron of TWiP  Send your questions and comments to twip@microbe.tv Music by Ronald Jenkees

In this edition of Snake Oilers we hear pitches from three security vendors: Sandfly Security: An agentless Linux security platform that actually sounds very cool Permiso: An identity security platform founded by ex FireEye folks Wiz: The cloud security giant is getting in on code security scanning You can watch this edition of Snake Oilers on YouTube here.

Even though Kala-azar is closer to elimination in the country, questions related to how the disease spreads still remain unanswered. Only recently, scientists in India and Bangladesh have understood the dynamics of how Post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis or PKDL, the skin manifestation of the disease, spreads kala-azar. For the third podcast in the series on kala-azar, Suno India's Menaka Rao speaks to Dr Rahul Chaubey, entomologist at Kala-azar Medical Research Centre, Muzaffarpur to understand the latest in vector research. Reporting for this story was supported by the MSF-DNDi Grant on Neglected Tropical Diseases as part of the Without Borders Media Fellowship. The fellowship encourages independent, impartial and neutral reporting on health and humanitarian crises.  References Transmission Dynamics of Visceral Leishmaniasis in the Indian Subcontinent – A Systematic Literature Review - PMCLivestock and rodents within an endemic focus of Visceral Leishmaniasis are not reservoir hosts for Leishmania donovani | PLOS Neglected Tropical DiseasesEstablishing, Expanding, and Certifying a Closed Colony of Phlebotomus argentipes (Diptera: Psychodidae) for Xenodiagnostic Studies at the Kala Azar Medical Research Center, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India - PMCOn a Herpetomonas Found in the Gut of the Sandfly, Phlebotomus Argentipes, Fed On Kala-Azar Patients - PMCTen years of kala-azar in west Bengal, Part I. Did post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis initiate the outbreak in 24-Parganas? - PMCBionomics of Phlebotomus argentipes in villages in Bihar, India with insights into efficacy of IRS-based control measures | PLOS Neglected Tropical DiseasesSee sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

In Berkeley Talks episode 179, Jamaican poet Ishion Hutchinson reads several poems, including "The Mud Sermon," "The Bicycle Eclogue" and "After the Hurricane." His April reading was part of the UC Berkeley Library's monthly event Lunch Poems."I take this voyage into poetry very seriously," begins Hutchinson, "and take none of it for granted, because of the weight of history, both growing up in Jamaica and knowing the violent history that comes with that. But also the violence, too, of canon, and seeing that my work as a poet, in part, is to figure out what sort of emancipatory forces I should summon. Luckily, I stand in great shoulders within the Caribbean tradition of many poets and writers that I admire, and envy, and wish they hadn't been born. Don't tell them that. This isn't recorded, of course."Here's “A Mud Sermon,” one of the poems Hutchinson read during the event:They shovelled the long trenches day and night.Frostbitten mud. Shellshock mud. Dungheap mud. Imperial mud.Venereal mud. Malaria mud. Hun bait mud. Mating mud.1655 mud: white flashes of sharks. Golgotha mud. Chilblain mud.Caliban mud. Cannibal mud. Ha ha ha mud. Amnesia mud.Drapetomania mud. Lice mud. Pyrexia mud. Exposure mud. Aphasia mud.No-man's-land's-Everyman's mud. And the smoking flax mud.Dysentery mud. Septic sore mud. Hog pen mud. Nephritis mud.Constipated mud. Faith mud. Sandfly fever mud. Rat mud.Sheol mud. Ir-ha-cheres mud. Ague mud. Asquith mud. Parade mud.Scabies mud. Mumps mud. Memra mud. Pneumonia mud.Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin mud. Civil war mud.And darkness and worms will be their dwelling-place mud.Yaws mud. Gog mud. Magog mud. God mud.Canaan the unseen, as promised, saw mud.They resurrected new counter-kingdoms,by the arbitrament of the sword mud.Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of two poetry collections: Far District and House of Lords and Commons. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, among others. He is a contributing editor to the literary journals The Common and Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art, and teaches in the graduate writing program at Cornell University.Lunch Poems is an ongoing poetry reading series at Berkeley that began in 2014. All readings happen from 12:10 p.m. to 12:50 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month. A new season of Lunch Poems will begin on Oct. 5 with Inuit poet dg nanouk okpik in the Morrison Library.Find upcoming talks on the Lunch Poems website and watch videos of past readings on the Lunch Poems YouTube channel. Listen to the episode and read the transcript on Berkeley News (news.berkeley.edu).Photo by Neil-Anthony Watson.Music by Blue Dot Sessions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shauna Gunaratne joins TWiP to solve the case of the Man from Mali with Painless Skin Lesions, and discuss her plans for a tropical medicine institute in New York City. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula Guest: Shauna Gunaratne Click arrow to play Download TWiP #212 (51 MB .mp3, 84 minutes) Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Links for this episode Letters read on TWiP 212 Become a patron of TWiP Case Study for TWiP 212 14 year old boy with a history of slow progressive development of abdominal ascites over years.  Appears wasted and malnourished. Afebrile, no history of weight loss or night sweats, no history of TB exposure, HIV negative. Had an older brother who died the year before of apparently the same disease. Had lived early life by the shores of lake Victoria. Currently has really impressive abdomen. Send your case diagnosis, questions and comments to twip@microbe.tv Music by Ronald Jenkees

This week Aidy is joined by Alex Layton, Head Of Marketing at Decanter. Decanter is a wine-lifestyle media brand. This includes a magazine, wine tasting events, a subcription website and more. Alex and Aidy take on all the latest booze news and play a christmassy game of Buy It Or Bin It. Plus, Alex lets Aidy in on the world of marketing and his favourite clients. This podcast is sponsored by Remy Cointreau and this week we are drinking the gorgeous Port Charlotte 10.

The TWiP team solves the case of the Man with a Cat and Ring Enhancing Lesions, and discuss domestic mammals as reservoirs for Leishmania donovani on the Indian subcontinent. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Links for this episode Reservoirs for Leishmania (Transboundary Emerg Dis) Support MicrobeTV at Parasites Without Borders Letters read on TWiP 201 Become a patron of TWiP Case Study for TWiP 201 Older male, >65, abdominal pain over last several months, getting worse, otherwise feels well. No change in weight. Past medical, surgical unremarkable. Social: grew up in rural inland China. As adult lived in large city. Always active and healthy, eating fish and leafy vegetables. Move to US 10 years before illness. No pets. No toxic habits. HIV negative. Unremarkable exam. Labs: elevated white count, platelets low, not anemic. Differential on white count: neutrophils predominant. Gets belly CT: reveals mass in colon. Colonoscopy done, mass resected. Pathology: shows adenocarcinoma, but also eggs in sample. Slightly ovoid, 80 microns. Send your case diagnosis, questions and comments to twip@microbe.tv Music by Ronald Jenkees

Sick of sandflies disrupting your summer holiday? Well, an app has been created that will help you identify a sandfly hotspot, and make sure you're prepared. Finnian Anderson is the person behind it talks to Jesse about his inspiration for the map app!

Sick of sandflies disrupting your summer holiday? Well, an app has been created to help identify sandfly hotspots.

Over the past week, Better Savannah held one-on-one Zoom interviews with all the candidates. Each interview ran about 90 minutes. We have compiled a general scorecard of their respective positions on how closely they aligned with our core issues.                                                                                                                  We are supporting Sabrina Kent for House District 165. She was the first candidate to respond to interview with us, gave us the longest and most in depth discussion, and aced most, if not all of our major policy issues.  District 165 runs along the eastern edge of Savannah from Presidents Street to the north to unincorporated Chatham County - Burnside Island/Windsor Forest to the south. It includes many neighborhoods including  Avondale, Victory Heights, parts of Downtown, Fernwood, Forest Hills, Magnolia Park, Terrace Heights, Bacon Park, Paradise Park, Windsor Forest, Sandfly, to name a few. We used a simple Pass/Fail grading score. Readers are urged to watch the candidates long form interviews on our Better Savannah Facebook page (links provided below). Some readers may draw different grading conclusions which is normal, however we are satisfied with our overall scoring.Edna Jackson:https://www.facebook.com/BetterSavannahForAll/videos/899435950709297/Antwan Lang:https://www.facebook.com/BetterSavannahForAll/videos/594096568435207Sabrina Kent:https://www.facebook.com/BetterSavannahForAll/videos/402358338138635Clinton Young:https://www.facebook.com/BetterSavannahForAll/videos/4429055000514378Clinton Cowart:https://www.facebook.com/BetterSavannahForAll/videos/4367178676700600

Blissful Hiker learns about the Maori legend of the sandfly, created to remind us that this Garden of Eden is something ephemeral, and one we can only pass through. In this episode:Blissful finishes her glorious walk of the Queen Charlotte Track visiting Havelock for a pot of mussels then camping on a trail angel's lawn. The walk continues to the unbelievably crystal clear emerald green Pelorus River. It's a glorious path through magical forests of beech and moss, a hobbit habitat. Blissful takes a swim, but is eaten alive by sandflies, definitely not part of the "Pure New Zealand" campaign.It's a steep hike to the ridge, with views to the big mountains ahead, then down Hacket Creek to meet friends in Nelson where Blissful plays a koauau, a Maori flute.MUSIC: MUSIC: Allegro by Carlos Guastavino  as played by Alison Young, flute and Vicki Seldon, pianoSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/blissfulhiker)

Could we stop flies from spreading diseases by letting them eat cannabis? How many species of insect are there? Why do sandflies drink blood? Come find out on this episode of Species. This episode is dedicated to the memory of Alex Levy. Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/124pvi8VkW8L5y8imnM5Rspqa1_VeDu9NAXxC4qo0nY0/edit?usp=sharing

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The TWiP'ers solve the case of the Sudanese Boy With Fever, and reveal antibodies against that slow invasion of red blood cells potentiate other malaria-blocking antibodies. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Daniel Griffin Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Links for this episode Antibodies that slow malaria invasion (Cell) Hero: Sir Leonard Rogers (pdf) Letters read on TWiP 175 Become a patron of TWiP. Case Study for TWiP 175 70 yo man born in India, came to US 1985. Has not gone back for 2-3 years. Admitted with acute onset of fever, cough, not eating well. Was fine until a week ago, had lost consciousness, fever 102F. Negative cultures for urine and blood. Some kidney stones, type II diabetes, elevated cholesterol, no surgeries. No family medical issues. Started on vancomycin on zosyn. Works in post office, lives with house in private home. No toxic habits. Has history of hiking trip 1-2 months prior, in Rhode Island, in June. No pets, animals. Exam unimpressive. Labs: crit 25, hemoglobin 9. Platelets 39. Bilirubin 5.3. Liver enzymes slightly elevated. Chest CT clear, blood smear: anisocytosis, microcytosis, polychromasia, 4.3% reticulocytes. Daniel orders one test, 90 minutes later starts treatment. HIV negative.   Send your case diagnosis, questions and comments to twip@microbe.tv Music by Ronald Jenkees

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Daniel Griffin The metacyclic TWiPomastigotes solve the case of the Child With a Painless Leg Lesion, and reveal how to kill mosquitoes with a genetically modified fungus. Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Transgenic Metarhizium kills mosquitoes (Science) Hero: Veena Tandon Letters read on TWiP 172 Links for this episode: Become a patron of TWiP. Case Study for TWiP 172 Retired US Navy physician, lives aboard his sailboat, just finished doing remote medical volunteer work in C. America. In DR when has sudden onset of dull prog worsening epigastric lower abdominal pain. Over next 12 hr intensifies, near tears, went to local medical center. Admitted, given IV, probiotics. Febrile, elevated WBC 20,000, platelets low, white counts left shift. Initially some constipation, then diarrhea with some blood. Discharged without diagnosis; still fever and chills; rash rose colored spots on torso. Daniel gets involved; 3 day course of azithromycin, symptoms continue; then metronidazole, feels better, fever, pain, symptoms resolve. Wife is ok. Three men working on his boat, one had bloody diarrhea before the patient did. Keeps a bowl of nuts around. Send your case diagnosis, questions and comments to twip@microbe.tv Music by Ronald Jenkees

This week I interview Craig Rowland of Sandfly Security about crypto-mining attacks on Linux systems. Learn more about Sandfly at https://www.sandflysecurity.com

The TWiPsters solve the case of the Child from DR with Poppy Seed Sized Things On His Head Hair Shafts, and reveal how the skin parasite landscape determines the infectiousness of Leishmania. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Daniel Griffin Become a patron of TWiP. Links for this episode: Tr (Cell Host Microbe) Letters read on TWiP 138 This episode is brought to you by Blue Apron. Blue Apron is the #1 fresh ingredient and recipe delivery service in the country. See what’s on the menu this week and get 3 meals free with your first purchase – WITH FREE SHIPPING – by going to blueapron.com/twip. Case Study for TWiP 138 New Yorker, female teenager from an outer boroughs, visual loss in right eye noted during routine eye exam. Not sure when started. Left is 20-20, otherwise feels fine. No surgeries, no noted medical history, no medications, in school, living with family, no toxic habits. Travel: had been upstate NY in past year. No pets. Defect in right eye pupillary reflex, pallor to optic nerve. Serologies: toxocara, HCV, syphilis, all negative. Dilated fundal exam: sees 1850 microns motile worm in the eye. Not on surface, not Loa Loa. Send your case diagnosis, questions and comments to twip@microbe.tv Music by Ronald Jenkees

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Daniel Griffin The TWiPsters solve the case of the Peace Corps Volunteer with a Liver Lesion, and discuss the dependence of Leishmania survival on the gut microbiome of the sandfly. Become a patron of TWiP. Links for this episode: Leishmania depends on sandfly gut microbiome (mBio) Kava (Wikipedia) Letters read on TWiP 127 This episode is brought to you by Blue Apron. Blue Apron is the #1 fresh ingredient and recipe delivery service in the country. See what’s on the menu this week and get your first 3 meals free with your first purchase - WITH FREE SHIPPING - by going to blueapron.com/twip. Case Study for TWiP 127 The last of our trio for the Peace Corp, an eosinophilia case. 29 yo pc volunteer in Rwanda, male, 3 weeks of feeling poorly. Starts with rash on lower back and upper legs, maculopapular rash. Fatigue later, cough, then diarrhea, 51% eosinophils (9000). No significant exposure to fresh water. Stool sent for oandp. Said sat down and got something on behind, realized later was feces, this was where rash developed. OandP seeing larva in stool. HIV neg, no med issue, no surgeries, no Kava.  Send your case diagnosis, questions and comments to twip@microbe.tv

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Daniel Griffin The TWiPniks docs solve the case of the Female from Peru with Epistaxis, and discuss the effect of community deworming on immunosuppression. Become a patron of TWiP. Links for this episode: Community deworming and immune hyporesponsiveness (PNAS) Paul C. Beaver (one, two) Photo by Oscar Adam Oscarson Letters read on TWiP 122 This episode is sponsored by CuriosityStream, a subscription streaming service that offers over 1,400 documentaries and non­fiction series from the world's best filmmakers. Get unlimited access starting at just $2.99 a month, and for our audience, the first two months are completely free if you sign up at curiositystream.com/microbe and use the promo code MICROBE. This show is sponsored by Drobo, a family of safe, expandable , yet simple to use storage arrays. Drobos are designed to protect your important data forever. This Holiday season give someone a Drobo to keep all their files and memories safe forever. TWiV listeners can save 20% or more off of their purchase of a Drobo 5D, Drobo 5Dt, Drobo 5N, or any 8-drive or 12-drive system at www.drobostore.com by December 31, 2016 using discount code MICROBE20. Case Study for TWiP 122 First of a series of cases with a theme, a 23 yo female international aid worker, chief complaint of diarrhea. Dutch descent, born in US, been in rural area of western DR, close to Haitian border. It’s been raining, houses have tin roofs, other flat concrete, rainwater pours off. Child comes by with mangoes, she buys one, washes it in rain water from the roof. Bites open mango, peels it, eats mango. The same night she is not feeling well, loose stools, abdominal discomfort. Next day, goes with group to border town; then has full fledged diarrhea. Looks into toilet, sees white objects 1 cm in length on stool, and they are moving. Uniform width, thinner than long, wormy looking. Has been participating in other activities in this area, swims in local river, walks barefoot, eating lot of local foods. Lunch: rice, beans, cooked meat, avocado. Dinner, yucca, fried salami, etc. Healthy before, no family history, not on meds, living with one of local families, no toxic habits. Dogs, cats, pigs, chickens around. One month earlier, cat in family home had kittens, she played with them. Very excited about that. Local physician contacted, he treats her.  Send your case diagnosis, questions and comments to twip@microbe.tv

John Sutton is the ex bass player of Winnipeg folk rockers "the Weakerthans". John has also been in other bands like "All Systems Go" (with John Kastner) "Sandfly fever" and even my band "Four Square". He now plays in a few bands out of Toronto like "Arson", "rusty" and "Sids Kids". John was the first real friend I made in Winnipeg when I moved there in 1992. After leaving Regina, John moved to Winnipeg and lived there until the success of "the Weakerthans" allowed him to move to Toronto. He currently works at the Air Canada Centre as a broadcast technician and plays in about 100 bands. In the Podcast we talked about music and how early punk influences changed both of us with our sense of community and the idea of what success actually is. As one of my oldest and dearest friends, it was a pleasure having John on the podcast. Brought to you by fetchclass.com & www.insightrecorders.com Shop with Banggood and support the show Shop with amazon.ca, amazon.com and amazon.co.uk  Bookmark the link and support the show!! Also brought to you by Musicians Friend Pick up a shirt http://apologue.ca/shop/

The TWiPanosomes solve the case about the Young Woman who Went to Belize, and relate how sandfly saliva skews the immune response and increases risk of cutaneous leishmaniasis. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Daniel Griffin   Links for this episode: Sandfly exposure and risk of cutaneous leishmaniasis (J Inf Dis) TWiP 14: Leishmania Image is L. longipalpis (credit) Letters read on TWiP 96 Case study for TWiP 96 Daniel's patient for this week is male patient referred for consultation by OB-GYN: his wife is pregnant, has been admitted and is about the give birth. It is her first pregnancy. There are concerns about the husband's skin problem and whether it is a threat to his pregnant wife. No lesions on woman, husband recently developed itchy skin problem on his hands. Bilateral. Small papules on webs of fingers, brown lines, blood clots at ends, has clearly scratched the lesions. Skin between fingers is involved. Travels, often stays in cheap hotels. Beds not clean. Last trip 1 month before symptoms.  Midwest travel. Family history of heart disease. Sales occupation. No animal exposure. Travels to medium to large cities.  Send your diagnosis to twip@twiv.tv Contact Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv Subscribe Subscribe to TWiP (free) in iTunes, by the RSS feed or by email  

Vincent and Dickson discuss the spread of P. knowlesi in Malaysia, and how Leishmania parasites protect the sandfly gut from bacterial infection. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Links for this episode: Spread of P. knowlesi in Malaysia (NY Times) Climate change in Europe and vector transmitted disease (Infez Med) Colonisation resistance in the sandfly gut (Parasites & Vectors) Car Talk co-host dies Early Career Scientists Symposium Image credit: Anne Marie Letters read on TWiP 79 Contact Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv Subscribe Subscribe to TWiP (free) in iTunes, by the RSS feed or by email  

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson discuss the finding that immunity to a sandfly salivary protein protects against fatal visceral leishmaniasis in hamsters. Links for this episode: Immunity to a salivary protein protects against leishmaniasis (PNAS) Image of blood-fed Lutzomyia longipalpis (right) credit Short history of Leishmania vaccines Leishmania on TWiP #14 Letters read on TWiP 53 Contact Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Vincent and Dickson consider the life cycle and pathogenesis of the protozoan parasite Leishmania. Host links: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Links for this episode: L. braziliensis life cycle (jpg) L. donovani life cycle (jpg) L. tropica life cycle (jpg) L. major lesion (jpg) Transgenic mosquito delivers Leishmania vaccine (thanks, Geoffrey) Plasmodium falciparum accompanied human expansion out of Africa (thanks, Prasad) Who speaks for the guinea worm? (thanks, Michael) Letters read on TWiP 14

Albert Picado of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on his goups findings presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 58th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, that insecticide-treated bed-nets did not prevent infection with leishmania donovani parasites—cause of the deadly visceral leishmaniasis—transmitted by the bite of the sandfly. He told Peter Goodwin about the study in India and Nepal in which they compared villages with and without bednets.