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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: Edmunds, W. John.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-08-03
Description: As any parent knows, young children are extremely efficient at catching and passing on respiratory infections. This intuition is backed up by a raft of scientific evidence, which was greatly bolstered during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. -
Creator: Joy, Mark, F. D. Richard Hobbs, Dylan McGagh, Oluwafunmi Akinyemi, and Simon de Lusignan.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-08-04
Description: There have been several attempts to predict mortality from COVID-19 in the UK, including calculation of age-based case fatality rates and relative risk (RR) of mortality. -
Creator: Arora, Rahul K., Abel Joseph, Jordan Van Wyk, Simona Rocco, Austin Atmaja, Ewan May, Tingting Yan, Niklas Bobrovitz, Jonathan Chevrier, Matthew P. Cheng, Tyler Williamson, and David L. Buckeridge.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-08-04
Description: As the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic passes its peak in many countries, serological studies are becoming increasingly important in guiding public health responses. Antibody testing is crucial for monitoring the evolution of the pandemic,… -
Creator: Cagliuso, Nicholas V., Meghan McGinty, and Syra Madad.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-07-24
Description: The highly predictable advent of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which researchers and practitioners alike have agreed was a longstanding, plausible hazard, coupled with civil unrest due to chronic injustices and the concurrent… -
Creator: Santarpia, Joshua L., Danielle N. Rivera, Vicki L. Herrera, M. Jane Morwitzer, Hannah M. Creager, George W. Santarpia, Kevin K. Crown, David M. Brett-Major, Elizabeth R. Schnaubelt, M. Jana Broadhurst, James V. Lawler, St Patrick Reid, and John J.…
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-07-29
Description: The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) originated in Wuhan, China in late 2019, and its resulting coronavirus disease, COVID-19, was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. The rapid… -
Creator: Jessica, Howard-Anderson, Webster Andrew, Goyal Abhinav, S. Vadnais David, S. Kraft Colleen, P. Steinberg James, and T. Jacob Jesse.
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-07-25
Description: The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has emphasized the importance of diagnostic medicine to both health professionals and the broader public. With rapid development and introduction of testing for SARS-CoV-2, much attention has been given to evaluating… -
Creator: Iversen, Kasper, Henning Bundgaard, Rasmus B. Hasselbalch, Jonas H. Kristensen, Pernille B. Nielsen, Mia Pries-Heje, Andreas D. Knudsen, Casper E. Christensen, Kamille Fogh, Jakob B. Norsk, Ove Andersen, Thea K. Fischer, Claus Antonio Juul Jensen,…
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-08-03
Description: Health-care workers are thought to be highly exposed to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. We aimed to investigate the prevalence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in health-care workers and the proportion of…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: Corbett, Kizzmekia S., Barbara Flynn, Kathryn E. Foulds, Joseph R. Francica, Seyhan Boyoglu-Barnum, Anne P. Werner, Britta Flach, Sarah O’Connell, Kevin W. Bock, Mahnaz Minai, Bianca M. Nagata, Hanne Andersen, David R. Martinez, Amy T. Noe, Naomi…
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-07-28
Description: Vaccines to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) are urgently needed. The effect of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccines on viral replication in both upper and lower airways is important to evaluate in nonhuman… -
Creator: Dawood, Fatimah S., Philip Ricks, Gibril J. Njie, Michael Daugherty, William Davis, James A. Fuller, Alison Winstead, Margaret McCarron, Lia C. Scott, Diana Chen, Amy E. Blain, Ron Moolenaar, Chaoyang Li, Adebola Popoola, Cynthia Jones, Puneet…
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-07-29
Description: Scant data are available about global patterns of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spread and global epidemiology of early confirmed cases of COVID-19 outside mainland China. We describe the global spread of SARS-CoV-2 and… -
Creator: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Subject: Personnel Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-07-28
Description: This rapid expert consultation builds on prior National Academies reports on the Crisis Standards of Care (CSC) and the rapid expert consultation on March 28, 2020, and focuses on staffing needs for the care of COVID patients, including the…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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