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

• Ebola Infection in Pregnancy: A Global Perspective and Lessons Learned.

  Tags Ebola, Family Support, Neonates, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Haddad, L. B., J. Horton, B. S. Ribner and D. J. Jamieson
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-03-18
  Description: The 2014 to 2016 Ebola outbreak, primarily based in 3 West African countries, had far-reaching global effects. 
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  NETEC - Online Course - Special Pathogens of Concern

  Tags R-IPC, Respiratory Pathogen, Special Pathogens, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018-04-26
  Description: It is critical that healthcare personnel have knowledge of Ebola and other special pathogens of concern and their implications for healthcare delivery in a biocontainment unit (BCU). In this course, learners will be able to describe pathogen-related…

• US State Public Health Departments Special Pathogen Planning.

  Tags CONOPS, Pre-hospital Transport, Public Health, R-EMS, R-Gen, R-PreH, R-Res&Pub, Special Pathogens
  Creator: Herstein, J. J., P. D. Biddinger, S. G. Gibbs, A. B. Le, K. C. Jelden, A. L. Hewlett and J. J. Lowe
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-12-07
  Description: US state public health departments played key roles in planning for and responding to confirmed and suspected cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) during the 2014-2016 outbreak, including designating select hospitals as high-level isolation units…

• U.S. High-Level Isolation Unit Clinical Laboratory Capabilities Update.

  Tags Diagnosis, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Isolation/Biocontainment, Lab, Laboratorian, Laboratory, Laboratory Testing, R-Lab, R-Res&Pub, Special Pathogens, Specimen Handling, Specimen Transport
  Creator: Herstein, J. J., P. C. Iwen, K. C. Jelden, P. D. Biddinger, S. G. Gibbs, A. B. Le, A. L. Hewlett and J. J. Lowe 
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-04
  Description: In late 2014, 56 hospitals in the United States were designated by state and federal public health authorities as specially designed high-level isolation units (HLIUs) equipped with advanced infrastructure, laboratory capabilities, and trained staff…
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  Critical Care for the Patient with Ebola Virus Disease (EBV): The Nebraska Perspective

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: Vasa, A., M. Schwedhelm and D. Johnson
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-11-26
  Description: Care for patients with Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and other highly infectious diseases is demanding and requires an unwavering commitment to teamwork and stringent infection control measures.

• Clinical management of Ebola virus disease in the United States and Europe

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Critical Care, Ebola, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: Uyeki, T. M., A. K. Mehta, R. T. Davey Jr, A. M. Liddell, T. Wolf, P. Vetter, S. Schmiedel, T. Grünewald, M. Jacobs and J. R. Arribas
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-02-18
  Description: Available data on the characteristics of patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD) and clini- cal management of EVD in settings outside West Africa, as well as the complications observed in those patients, are limited.

• A detailed instructional process for donning and doffing level C personal protective equipment in a healthcare setting

  Tags Donning and Doffing, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE
  Creator: Swanhorst, J., K. Boulter, A. Vasa, B. Boeckman and M. Schwedhelm
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2014-06-09
  Description: Use of Level C personal protective equipment is an uncommon practice in the routine provision of nursing care.
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  Ebola Virus Disease: Experience and Decision Making for the First Patients outside of Africa

  Tags CONOPS, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Intake, Pre-hospital Transport, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Region 4, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Stephens, D. S., B. S. Ribner, B. D. Gartland, N. R. Feistritzer, M. M. Farley, C. P. Larsen and J. T. Fox
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-07-28
  Description: David Stephens and colleagues describe their experience of treating patients with Ebola virus disease at Emory University in the United States.

• Planning and response to Ebola virus disease: An integrated approach

  Tags Ebola, Emergency Management, EMS, Exercises and Drills, Infection Prevention and Control, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-Lead, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, Staffing, Staffing Model, Training, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Smith, P. W., K. C. Boulter, A. L. Hewlett, C. J. Kratochvil, E. J. Beam, S. G. Gibbs, J. M. Lowe and M. M. Schwedhelm
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-05-01
  Description: The care of patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD) requires the application of critical care medicine principles under conditions of stringent infection control precautions.

• Reflections on interprofessional team-based clinical care in the ebola epidemic: The Nebraska Medicine experience

  Tags Ebola, Nursing, Patient Care, R-T&C, Staff Support, Staffing, Staffing Model, Training
  Creator: Schwedhelm, S., E. L. Beam, R. D. Morris and J. G. Sebastian
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-02-01
  Description: Team-based interprofessional care has become the gold standard for comprehensive and efficient health care.