Providing Information on Infectious Diseases

The One Health Frontier WISE Program has been run by Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University. The program has accomplished and some of the world’s brightest experts in zoonosis control, infectious diseases, veterinary medicine, microbiology, public health, risk analysis, and other fields of One Health. Our PhD students are also undertaking in-depth research in those areas.

 

This site, newly opened on April 20th 2020, is for providing updated information about infectious diseases such as COVID-19; what the virus is like, what we should be careful about, how to prevent from infection. All that information is based on scientific facts and reliable academic resources.

 

• 2021/12/13

  Updated "Research Findings in Attenuation of COVID-19" (Video)

• 2021/12/10

  Updated "SARS-CoV-2 variants with mutations at the S1/ S2 cleavage site are generated in vitro during propagation in TMPRSS2- deficient cells"

 

Answer questions about COVID-19 from a scientist's perspective

 

Scientific knowledge of SARS-CoV2, COVID-19

 

Latest information on COVID-19 summarized by WISE PhD students