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

• Pregnancy and breastfeeding in the context of Ebola: a systematic review

  Tags Ebola, Labor and Delivery, Neonates, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, R-T&C, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Foeller, Megan E., Carolina Carvalho Ribeiro do Valle, Timothy M. Foeller, Olufemi T. Oladapo, Elin Roos, and Anna E. Thorson.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-05-06
  Description: The outbreaks of Ebola virus between 2014 and 2020 have drawn attention to knowledge gaps related to Ebola virus disease in pregnant women. The aim of this study was to systematically evaluate available data on pregnant and lactating women with acute…

• Safety and immunogenicity of a modified vaccinia virus Ankara vector vaccine candidate for Middle East respiratory syndrome: an open-label, phase 1 trial

  Tags MERS-CoV, R-Lab, R-Res&Pub, Vaccine Study
  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%.

• Ebola virus disease in DR Congo

  Tags Ebola, Outbreaks, Outcomes, R-Gen, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Burki, Talha.
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-04
  Description: As the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo is ending, there are important lessons to be learnt. Talha Burki reports.

• Ready or Not, Patients Will Present: Improving Urban Pandemic Preparedness.

  Tags Pandemic, Preparedness, R-EM, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen
  Creator: Madad, Syra, Joshua Moskovitz, Matthew R. Boyce, Nicholas V. Cagliuso, and Rebecca Katz.
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-16
  Description: Over the past century, society has achieved great gains in medicine, public health, and health-care infrastructure, particularly in the areas of vaccines, antibiotics, sanitation, intensive care and medical technology.

• An observational cohort study of triage for critical care provision during pandemic influenza: ‘clipboard physicians’ or ‘evidenced based medicine’?

  Tags Critical Care, Ethics, Flu, Influenza, Pandemic, R-Res&Pub, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Guest, T., G. Tantam, N. Donlin, K. Tantam, H. McMillan, and A. Tillyard.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2009-10-09
  Description: We assessed the impact of a United Kingdom government‐recommended triage process, designed to guide the decision to admit patients to intensive care during an influenza pandemic, on patients in a teaching hospital intensive care unit.

• Worst case: rethinking tertiary triage protocols in pandemics and other health emergencies

  Tags Critical Care, Ethics, Pandemic, R-EM, R-Res&Pub, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Fink, Sheri L.
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2010
  Description: Demand for critical care resources could vastly outstrip supply in an influenza pandemic or other health emergency, which has led expert groups to propose altered standards for triage and resource allocation.

• Does triage to critical care during a pandemic necessarily result in more survivors?

  Tags Critical Care, Ethics, Pandemic, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Utley, Martin, Christina Pagel, Mark J. Peters, Andy Petros, and Paula Lister.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2011-01
  Description: The 2009 H1N1 pandemic reinforced the need for a planned response to increased demand for critical care.
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  VA Pandemic Influenza Plan

  Tags Emergency Management, Ethics, Flu, Influenza, Pandemic, R-EM, R-Res&Pub, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2006-03-31
  Description: The VA Pandemic Influenza Plan has been created to guide VA in protecting staff and Veterans during a pandemic. It is part of VA emergency plans to help all parts of VA with preparation, response, and recovery stages of an influenza pandemic.

• Scarce Resource Management & Crisis Standards of Care

  Tags Emergency Management, Ethics, Pandemic, R-EM, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Washington State Department of Health and Northwest Healthcare Response Network
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2021-11
  Description: In the event of a large-scale disaster, either a no-notice event such as a natural disaster or a prolonged situation such as a pandemic, there is the potential for an overwhelming number of critically ill or injured patients. In these situations,…
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  Public Engagement Project on Medical Service Prioritization During an Influenza Pandemic

  Tags Ethics, Flu, Influenza, Pandemic, R-T&C, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Public Health - Seattle & King County
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2009-09-29
  Description: A severe influenza pandemic will have profound impact on the health care delivery system. Shortages of life-sustaining medical resources, including hospital beds, trained health care providers, intensive care unit resources, medical supplies,…