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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

• Chimpanzee adenovirus type 3 vectored Ebola vaccine: expanding the field

  Tags Ebola, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Bavari, Sina, and Patrick L. Iversen.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-19
  Description: Two phase 2 randomised clinical trials evaluating ChAd3-EBO-Z administered to healthy adults in Cameroon, Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal and healthy children in Mali and Senegal are reported by Milagritos Tapia and colleagues in The Lancet Infectious…

• SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load in Upper Respiratory Specimens of Infected Patients

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Epidemiology, R-Res&Pub, SARS-CoV-2
  Creator: Zou, Lirong, Feng Ruan, Mingxing Huang, Lijun Liang, Huitao Huang, Zhongsi Hong, Jianxiang Yu, Min Kang, Yingchao Song, Jinyu Xia, Qianfang Guo, Tie Song, Jianfeng He, Hui-Ling Yen, Malik Peiris, and Jie Wu.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-19
  Description: The 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic, which was first reported in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization, may progress to a pandemic…

• Am I Part of the Cure or Am I Part of the Disease? Keeping Coronavirus Out When a Doctor Comes Home

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Infection Prevention and Control, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Rose, Christian.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-18
  Description: Last year, after a month of dry cough and shortness of breath while walking up the steep steps of Fillmore Street in San Francisco, Mary, my mother-in-law and housemate, noticed that she was becoming more and more easily winded.

• Covid-19 — The Law and Limits of Quarantine

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Infection Prevention and Control, Isolate, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Parmet, Wendy E., and Michael S. Sinha.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-18
  Description: As Covid-19 spreads around the globe, governments have imposed quarantines and travel bans on an unprecedented scale. China locked down whole cities, and Italy has imposed draconian restrictions throughout the country.

• Analysis of COVID-19 infection spread in Japan based on stochastic transition model

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Airborne Transmission, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Droplet Transmission, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Karako, Kenji, Peipei Song, Yu Chen, and Wei Tang.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-18
  Description: To assess the effectiveness of response strategies of avoiding large gatherings or crowded areas and to predict the spread of COVID-19 infections in Japan, we developed a stochastic transmission model by extending the Susceptible-Infected-Removed…

• Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Airborne Transmission, Coronavirus, COVID-19, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen
  Creator: van Doremalen, Neeltje, Trenton Bushmaker, Dylan H. Morris, Myndi G. Holbrook, Amandine Gamble, Brandi N. Williamson, Azaibi Tamin, Jennifer L. Harcourt, Natalie J. Thornburg, Susan I. Gerber, James O. Lloyd-Smith, Emmie de Wit, and Vincent J.…
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-17
  Description: A novel human coronavirus that is now named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (formerly called HCoV-19) emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019 and is now causing a pandemic.
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  Challenges to the system of reserve medical supplies for public health emergencies: reflections on the outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic in China

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Emergency Management, Gloves, Gown, Mask, Masks, N95, Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, SARS-CoV-2
  Creator: Wang, Xu, Xiaoxi Zhang, and Jiangjiang He.
  Subject: Physical Infrastructure
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-15
  Description: On December 31, 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission announced an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), China is now at a critical period in the control of the epidemic.
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  Clinical characteristics and therapeutic procedure for four cases with 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia receiving combined Chinese and Western medicine treatment

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen, Therapeutics
  Creator: Wang, Zhenwei, Xiaorong Chen, Yunfei Lu, Feifei Chen, and Wei Zhang.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-15
  Description: Pneumonia associated with the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is continuously and rapidly circulating at present.

• Real estimates of mortality following COVID-19 infection

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, R-EM, R-Res&Pub, SARS-CoV-2, Survivors
  Creator: Baud, David, Xiaolong Qi, Karin Nielsen-Saines, Didier Musso, Léo Pomar, and Guillaume Favre.
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-31
  Description: As of March 1, 2020, 79 968 patients in China and 7169 outside of China had tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).This article resulted in correspondence and the following responding articles: Spychalski, Piotr, Agata…

• A Locally Transmitted Case of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Taiwan

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Airborne Transmission, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Droplet Transmission, R-Res&Pub, SARS-CoV-2
  Creator: Liu, Ying-Chu, Ching-Hui Liao, Chin-Fu Chang, Chu-Chung Chou, and Yan-Ren Lin.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-12
  Description: Since December 2019, an outbreak of infection with the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has developed in Wuhan, China, and has spread to several countries, typically by travelers returning from China.