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Get introduced to NETEC through the interactive timeline of special pathogens below.* This timeline describes some significant special pathogen events in recent history.
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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 .
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This NETEC Repository helps to provide training and educational resources to prepare for future special pathogen events.
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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:
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Collection Resources
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Creator: Kang, Yin, Longjiao Deng, Dengwen Zhang, Yuehong Wang, Gang Wang, Li Mei, Guobin Zhou, and Haihua Shu.
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-21
Description: The new coronavirus (COVID-19) has been characterized as a world pandemic by WHO since March 11, 2020. Although it is likely that COVID-19 transmission is primarily via droplets and close contact, airborne transmission and fecal-oral route remains a…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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Creator: Koch, Till, Christine Dahlke, Anahita Fathi, Alexandra Kupke, Verena Krähling, Nisreen M. A. Okba, Sandro Halwe, Cornelius Rohde, Markus Eickmann, Asisa Volz, Thomas Hesterkamp, Alen Jambrecina, Saskia Borregaard, My L. Ly, Madeleine E. Zinser,…
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-20
Description: The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) causes a respiratory disease with a case fatality rate of up to 35%. -
Creator: Modjarrad, Kayvon, and Jerome H. Kim.
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-20
Description: Since the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in 2002, the emergence and expansion of endemic and epidemic coronaviruses has been accelerating on a scale not seen for any other group of viruses with pandemic… -
Creator: Ranscombe, Peter.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-17
Description: An expert in rural health advises governments to take a systematic approach to tackling the coronavirus crisis rather than focusing solely on urban areas. Peter Ranscombe reports. -
Creator: Nelson, Roxanne.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-17
Description: The impact of the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus 2019 on immunisation campaigns in low- and middle-income countries is concerning. Roxanne Nelson reports. -
Creator: Glynn, Judith R.
Subject: General
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-17
Description: The initial estimates of the case fatality rate of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from China and the published modelled estimates both show a very strong age-dependence. -
Creator: Bangalore, Sripal, Atul Sharma, Alexander Slotwiner, Leonid Yatskar, Rafael Harari, Binita Shah, Homam Ibrahim, Gary H. Friedman, Craig Thompson, Carlos L. Alviar, Hal L. Chadow, Glenn I. Fishman, Harmony R. Reynolds, Norma Keller, and Judith S.…
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-17
Description: Myocardial injury with ST-segment elevation has been observed in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). Here, we describe our experience in the initial month of the Covid-19 outbreak in New York City. -
Creator: Toscano, Gianpaolo, Francesco Palmerini, Sabrina Ravaglia, Luigi Ruiz, Paolo Invernizzi, M. Giovanna Cuzzoni, Diego Franciotta, Fausto Baldanti, Rossana Daturi, Paolo Postorino, Anna Cavallini, and Giuseppe Micieli.
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-17
Description: From February 28 through March 21, 2020, in three hospitals in northern Italy, we examined five patients who had Guillain–Barré syndrome after the onset of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome… -
Creator: Goyal, Parag, Justin J. Choi, Laura C. Pinheiro, Edward J. Schenck, Ruijun Chen, Assem Jabri, Michael J. Satlin, Thomas R. Campion, Musarrat Nahid, Joanna B. Ringel, Katherine L. Hoffman, Mark N. Alshak, Han A. Li, Graham T. Wehmeyer, Mangala Rajan,…
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-17
Description: The world is in the midst of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, and New York City has emerged as an epicenter. Here, we characterize the first 393 consecutive patients with Covid-19 who were admitted to two hospitals in New York City. -
Creator: Xydakis, Michael S., Puya Dehgani-Mobaraki, Eric H. Holbrook, Urban W. Geisthoff, Christian Bauer, Charlotte Hautefort, Philippe Herman, Geoffrey T. Manley, Dina M. Lyon, and Claire Hopkins.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-15
Description: The plural of an anecdote is not evidence, yet anecdotal international reports are accumulating from ear, nose, and throat (ENT) surgeons and other health-care workers on the front lines that anosmia, with or without dysgeusia, are symptoms…
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