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Date Time Toward Zoonosis Control through Preemption: Research Center for Zoonosis Control This article was published in the Autumn 2020 issue of Litterae Populi. The full list of articles can be found here. When, where, and how do pathogens creep into our daily lives? We are committed to safeguarding human health against the threat of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. HUCZC faculty with international students from Zambia and elsewhere (at an HUCZC lab). From front right: Hiroshi Kida (head of the HUCZC), Yasuhiko Suzuki (director), and Hirofumi Sawa (vice-director). The HUCZC hos...

Hokkaido University Development of anti-influenza drugs Sato is a virus specialist with more than 40 years of experience. When he first took up the subject upon joining Shionogi, however, research on drugs to treat viral diseases was not receiving the kind of attention it deserved. In 1974, the world’s first anti-viral drug, Acyclovir, was developed in the United States, but it was not until the discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the development of genetic engineering in the 1980s that research on anti-viral drugs accelerated. After devoting much of his time at Shionogi to ...

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Head, Collaborating Research Center for the Control and Prevention of Infectious Diseases, Nagasaki University Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Zoonoses Control Hiroshi Kida, a top authority on zoonoses, has frequently been challenged by naysayers who dispute virtually everything he has asserted about avian, pandemic and seasonal influenzas. But every time he faced such a challenge, Kida simply concentrated on his pursuit of scientific truths involving influenza – one of the zoonoses – rather than engaging in verbal arguments. “In some cases, it was me against 100 opponents,” ...