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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

• The CDC Field Epidemiology Manual

  Tags Identify, Infection Prevention and Control, Outbreaks, Public Health, R-IPC
  Creator: CDC
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2019
  Description: The CDC Field Epidemiology Manual is a definitive guide to investigating acute public health events on the ground and in real time. Assembled and written by experts from the CDC as well as other leading public health agencies, it offers current and…
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  Identify, Isolate, Inform: Assessment, Management, and Placement of Persons Under Investigation (webinar)

  Tags Communications, CONOPS, Ebola, Emergency Department, Identify, Inform, Isolate, Person Under Investigation (PUI), Physical Infrastructure, Public Health, R-PhIn, Special Pathogens
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
  Item Type: Webinar
  Date Last Updated: 2018-05-08
  Description: This is a recording of a webinar offered on May 8, 2018, by the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center and facilitated by the Spokane Regional Health District. In this webinar, NETEC faculty discuss the assessment,…
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  The Creation of a Biocontainment Unit at a Tertiary Care Hospital. The Johns Hopkins Medicine Experience.

  Tags Bioseal, Contact Transmission, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-PhIn, R-Res&Pub, Region 3, Special Pathogens, Staff Rotation Schedules, Staffing
  Creator: Johns Hopkins
  Subject: Physical Infrastructure
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-05-01
  Description: In response to the 2014-2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa, Johns Hopkins Medicine created a biocontainment unit to care for patients infected with Ebola virus and other high-consequence pathogens.

• Public Health Emergencies and the Media

  Tags Communications, Ebola, Emergency Management, Epidemic, Outbreaks, Public Health, R-EM
  Creator: Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2016-08-01
  Description: This release discusses how non-scientists can spot the hype in media coverage on public health emergencies.
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  Ebola Response Improvement Plan

  Tags Ebola, Federal, Public Health, R-Gen
  Creator: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2017-01-01
  Description: An outside expert panel reviewed the HHS Ebola response and provided recommendations on improving the Department’s preparedness and response efforts. This status report outlines progress toward addressing key recommendations made by the expert panel.

• Nextstrain - Genomic epidemiology of the 2013-2016 West African Ebola epidemic

  Tags Ebola, Epidemiology, Public Health, R-Gen, Virology
  Creator: Nextstrain
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2019-12-14
  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, and measles.

• Ebola Virus Disease

  Tags Diagnosis, Ebola, Epidemiology, Infection Prevention and Control, Public Health, Quarantine, R-IPC, Treatment and Care
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2018-02-12
  Description: WHO Ebola Virus Disease fact sheet.
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  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Strategic Plan: 2018-2023

  Tags Epidemic, Epidemiology, Federal, Outbreaks, Public Health, R-Gen, Special Pathogens, Zoonotic
  Creator: CDC, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID)
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2018-08
  Description: This document is a strategic roadmap for the work necessary to realize the center’s vision: prevent infections, protect people, and save lives. (CDC)

• Medical Aspects of Biological Warfare

  Tags Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Public Health, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Smallpox
  Creator: Office of the Surgeon General, Borden Institute, US Army Medical Department Center and School, Health Readiness Center of Excellence
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-09-05
  Description: This is an open source text book for military medical educational use.
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  Regional Treatment Network for Ebola and Other Special Pathogens

  Tags Ebola, Epidemic, Federal, Outbreaks, Public Health, R-Gen, Special Pathogens
  Creator: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2017-11-01
  Description: This report, prepared by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), Office of Emergency Management’s Division of National H ealthcare Preparedness Program s, is in…