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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: Nextstrain
Subject: General
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2020-01-19
Description: Nextstrain is an open-source project to harness the scientific and public health potential of pathogen genome data. Datasets are available on ebola, flu, enterovirus, WNV, tb, lassa, mumps, zikka, dengue, ncov, and measles.Genomic epidemiology of… -
Creator: Nextstrain
Subject: General
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2020-01-16
Description: Nextstrain is an open-source project to harness the scientific and public health potential of pathogen genome data. Datasets are available on ebola, flu, enterovirus, WNV, tb, lassa, mumps, zikka, dengue, ncov, and measles.Phylogeny of SARS-like… -
Creator: WHO
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2020-02-27
Description: Interim guidance for surveillance of the novel coronavirus (nCoV) recently identified in Wuhan, China (2019-nCoV).
Global Surveillance for human infection with coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Updated. -
Creator: WHO
Subject: General
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2020-01-09
Description: A page of questions and answers about coronaviruses. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are known to cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute… -
Creator: National Governors Association (NGA)
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Webinar
Date Last Updated: 2019-11-26
Description: The third webinar in the four-part series on Legal Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies, this was hosted in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Bar Association. -
Creator: CDC
Subject: General
Item Type: Video
Date Last Updated: 2019-09-05
Description: Welcome to “We Were There,” a quarterly lecture series featuring past and present CDC researchers as they share their personal perspectives on historically important, CDC-led epidemiologic and laboratory investigations. This series will provide… -
Creator: Georgetown University
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Video
Date Last Updated: 2019-09-27
Description: Global Health Security Seminar: The Ebola virus disease outbreak that affected West Africa from 2014 to 2016 was the largest and most complex on record since the virus was first discovered in the 1970’s. In August of 2018, the disease appeared again… -
Creator: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-10-10
Description: This document describes the FDA's approval of the marketing of a rapid diagnostic test (RDT) to detect Ebola virus antigens (proteins) in human blood from certain living individuals and samples from certain recently deceased individuals suspected to…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: Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2014
Description: Template for Public Health Laboratory Risk Assessment for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) TestingExample 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: CDC, Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Department of Transportation
Subject: Pre-hospital
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2016-01-26
Description: Guidance that includes Patient Handoff SOP, Air-to-Ground Patient Handoff SOP, and Ambulance Decontamination
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