Contributed photo by Clive Kileff / Retired UTC anthropology professor Clive Kileff is giving away T-shirts to promote the COVID-19 vaccine.One day about 70 years ago, Clive Kileff, then a 9-year-old boy, got the scare of his young life.
“I was riding my bike to school,” he recalled, “and out of nowhere a dog came out and bit me on the leg.”
Later, at school, a teacher noticed his leg bleeding, but the dog, which had showed signs of having rabies, could not be found. As a result, young Clive, who lived in Zimbabwe, Africa, at the time, had to endure a painful set of abdominal injections with the rabies vaccine.
All these decades later, Kileff, a retired UTC professor who has a doctorate in anthropology, hasn’t forgotten the gift of medicine.
He hopes as many people as possible can be persuaded to get the COVID-19 vaccine, which he sees as the key to ending the worldwide pandemic that has scrambled the planet for most of the past two years.