Discover Background Data and Resources:

• Get introduced to NETEC through the interactive timeline of special pathogens below.* This timeline describes some significant special pathogen events in recent history.

• Find out more about the 2014 Ebola outbreak and the development of the ASPR/CDC-supported network of healthcare facilities preparing for the next outbreak through the Ebola timeline.

• This NETEC Repository helps to provide training and educational resources to prepare for future special pathogen events.

• Explore the files BELOW THE TIMELINE to discover and learn more about Ebola and other Special Pathogens, an overview of special pathogens, clinically managing patients affected, and readying healthcare teams and systems to keep everyone safe.

Timeline of Special Pathogens:

*Click for a screen reader accessible table of this timeline.

Collection Resources

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  Ebola Characteristics Compared with Other Infectious Disease

  Tags Ebola, R-Gen, Special Pathogens
  Creator: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2018-05-14
  Description: This table presents Ebola characteristics compared with other infectious diseases.

• Ebola: Five Key Questions

  Tags Contact Transmission, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, R-Gen, Therapeutics
  Creator: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2018-05-14
  Description: Questions about Ebola explained

• Crises, Calamities, and Chaos: How Public Health Can Improve Response to Emerging Threats Wherever They Arise

  Tags Emergency Management, Epidemic, Pandemic, Public Health, R-EM
  Creator: Boston University
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Webinar
  Date Last Updated: 2018-04-30
  Description: From Ebola to Zika, from hurricanes to opioids, threats to health make headlines and challenge our public health response. Lessons learned from CDC’s engagements around the world, and in our backyard, suggest a role for everyone in mitigating risk…
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  Ebola-Marburg R&D (Research and Development) Roadmap

  Tags Ebola, Marburg, R-Res&Pub, Research Design
  Creator: CIDRAP
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Webinar
  Date Last Updated: 2018-05-15
  Description: Video explaining the WHO's Research and Development Roadmap.

• Design Strategies to Improve Healthcare Worker Safety in Biocontainment Units: Learning from Ebola Preparedness

  Tags Biosafety, Example, Occupational Health, R-Lead, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, Staff Support, Staffing, Trained Observer
  Creator: DuBose, J. R., Z. Matić, M. F. W. Sala, J. M. Mumma, C. S. Kraft, L. M. Casanova, K. Erukunuakpor, F. T. Durso, V. L. Walsh, P. Shah, C. M. Zimring and J. T. Jacob.
  Subject: Personnel Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-06-18
  Description: To identify ways that the built environment may support or disrupt safe doffing of personal protective equipment (PPE) in biocontainment units (BCU).

  Example only: NETEC provides this item for reference purposes but does not endorse its content. Newer versions may be in place at the providing institution.

• Determining training and education needs pertaining to highly infectious disease preparedness and response: A gap analysis survey of US emergency medical services practitioners.

  Tags Airborne Transmission, Contact Transmission, Droplet Transmission, EMS, Example, Occupational Exposure, Occupational Health, R-PM, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Le, A. B., S. A. Buehler, P. M. Maniscalco, P. Lane, L. E. Rupp, E. Ernest, D. Von Seggern, K. West, J. J. Herstein, K. C. Jelden, E. L. Beam, S. G. Gibbs and J. J. Lowe.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-03-00
  Description: The Ebola virus disease outbreak highlighted the lack of consistent guidelines and training for workers outside of hospital settings. Specifically, emergency medical services (EMS) workers, who are frequently the first professionals to evaluate…

  Example only: NETEC provides this item for reference purposes but does not endorse its content. Newer versions may be in place at the providing institution.

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  PPE 101

  Tags Donning and Doffing, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-T&E
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018
  Description: Past in Person Course Presentation - Recognize components of maintaining a safe work environment. Differentiate safe and risky behavior when using PPE. Recognize safe and risky behavior in donning and doffing PPE in patient care scenarios.
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  Special Pathogens of Concern

  Tags Infection Prevention and Control, NSPS 1, NSPS 2, NSPS 3, NSPS 4, R-T&E, Respiratory Pathogen, Special Pathogens, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018
  Description: Past in Person Course Presentation - Explore what pathogen related factors may warrant treatment in a biocontainment unit. Describe the clinical presentation of selected special pathogens or high consequence infectious diseases. 2 broad categories:…
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  All Hazards Approach Use of HICS in Managing Highly Infectious Disease Patients

  Tags Communications, Intake, NSPS 1, NSPS 2, NSPS 3, NSPS 4, R-EM, Special Pathogens
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2017
  Description: Past In Person Course Presentation: Describe the "all -hazards" approach to managing the care of highly infectious disease (HID) patients. Describe the use of the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) in the care of HID patients. Describe the key…
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  New Lineage of Lassa Virus, Togo, 2016

  Tags R-Res&Pub
  Creator: CDC, Shannon L.M. Whitmer, Thomas Strecker, Daniel Cadar, Hans-Peter Dienes, Kelly Faber, Ketan Patel, Shelley M. Brown, William G. Davis, John D. Klena, Pierre E. Rollin, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit, Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet, Bernd Noack, Petra Emmerich,…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-03-31
  Description: We describe a strain of Lassa virus representing a putative new lineage that was isolated from a cluster of human infections with an epidemiologic link to Togo. This finding extends the known range of Lassa virus to Togo.