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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: Ruan, Shigui.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-30
Description: A case fatality ratio of an infectious disease measures the proportion of all individuals diagnosed with a disease who will die from that disease. -
Creator: Verity, Robert, Lucy C. Okell, Ilaria Dorigatti, Peter Winskill, Charles Whittaker, Natsuko Imai, Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg, Hayley Thompson, Patrick G. T. Walker, Han Fu, Amy Dighe, Jamie T. Griffin, Marc Baguelin, Sangeeta Bhatia, Adhiratha Boonyasiri,…
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-30
Description: In the face of rapidly changing data, a range of case fatality ratio estimates for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been produced that differ substantially in magnitude. -
Creator: Joynt, Gavin M., and William K. K. Wu.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-27
Description: In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Francois-Xavier Lescure and colleagues describe the first cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Europe, which were reported in France. -
Creator: Lescure, Francois-Xavier, Lila Bouadma, Duc Nguyen, Marion Parisey, Paul-Henri Wicky, Sylvie Behillil, Alexandre Gaymard, Maude Bouscambert-Duchamp, Flora Donati, Quentin Le Hingrat, Vincent Enouf, Nadhira Houhou-Fidouh, Martine Valette, Alexandra…
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-27
Description: In this case series, we followed five patients admitted to Bichat-Claude Bernard University Hospital (Paris, France) and Pellegrin University Hospital (Bordeaux, France) and diagnosed with COVID-19 by semi-quantitative RT-PCR on nasopharyngeal… -
Creator: Tuite, Ashleigh R., Victoria Ng, Erin Rees, David Fisman, Annelies Wilder-Smith, Kamran Khan, and Isaac I. Bogoch.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-26
Description: In December, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in Wuhan, China, causing a pandemic that continues to spread globally. -
Creator: American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN)
Subject: General
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-24
Description: This page provides COVID-19 resources for nurses including AACN Clinical Resources and Advocacy. -
Creator: Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
Subject: General
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-27
Description: The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is rapidly developing and deploying resources to respond to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This page includes COVID-19 Response Resources and Guidelines. -
Creator: Hoehl, Sebastian, Holger Rabenau, Annemarie Berger, Marhild Kortenbusch, Jindrich Cinatl, Denisa Bojkova, Pia Behrens, Boris Böddinghaus, Udo Götsch, Frank Naujoks, Peter Neumann, Joscha Schork, Petra Tiarks-Jungk, Antoni Walczok, Markus Eickmann,…
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-26
Description: As the number of cases of infection with the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has continued to increase, many countries have established restrictions regarding travelers who have recently visited China. -
Creator: Lipsitch, Marc, David L. Swerdlow, and Lyn Finelli.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-26
Description: The epidemic of 2019 novel coronavirus (now called SARS-CoV-2, causing the disease Covid-19) has expanded from Wuhan throughout China and is being exported to a growing number of countries, some of which have seen onward transmission. -
Creator: Li, Qun, Xuhua Guan, Peng Wu, Xiaoye Wang, Lei Zhou, Yeqing Tong, Ruiqi Ren, Kathy S. M. Leung, Eric H. Y. Lau, Jessica Y. Wong, Xuesen Xing, Nijuan Xiang, Yang Wu, Chao Li, Qi Chen, Dan Li, Tian Liu, Jing Zhao, Man Liu, Wenxiao Tu, Chuding Chen,…
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-26
Description: The initial cases of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)–infected pneumonia (NCIP) occurred in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in December 2019 and January 2020.
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