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

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  Different types of door-opening motions as contributing factors to containment failures in hospital isolation rooms

  Mots-clés Flu, Infection Prevention and Control, Influenza, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Occupational Exposure, Physical Infrastructure, R-PhIn, R-Res&Pub, SARS, Staff Support, Staffing
  Créateur: Tang, Julian W., Andre Nicolle, Jovan Pantelic, Christian A. Klettner, Ruikun Su, Petri Kalliomaki, Pekka Saarinen, Hannu Koskela, Kari Reijula, Panu Mustakallio, David K. W. Cheong, Chandra Sekhar, and Kwok Wai Tham.
  Sujet: Infection Control
  Type d'élément: Publication
  Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2013-06-24
  Description: Hospital isolation rooms are vital for the containment (when under negative pressure) of patients with, or the protection (when under positive pressure) of patients, from airborne infectious agents.
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  Clinical and epidemiological predictors of transmission in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

  Mots-clés Airborne Transmission, Diagnosis, Droplet Transmission, Epidemiology, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-Res&Pub, SARS
  Créateur: Chen, Mark I. C., Angela L. P. Chow, Arul Earnest, Hoe Nam Leong, and Yee Sin Leo.
  Sujet: Infection Control
  Type d'élément: Publication
  Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2006
  Description: Only a minority of probable SARS cases caused transmission. We assess if any epidemiological or clinical factors in SARS index patients were associated with increased probability of transmission.
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  Monitoring for airborne respiratory viruses in a general pediatric ward in Singapore

  Mots-clés Airborne Transmission, Flu, Infection Prevention and Control, Influenza, Occupational Exposure, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen
  Créateur: Yadana, Su, Kristen Kelli Coleman, Tham Thi Nguyen, Christophe Hansen-Estruch, Shirin Kalimuddin, Koh Cheng Thoon, Jenny Guek Hong Low, and Gregory Charles Gray.
  Sujet: Research
  Type d'élément: Publication
  Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2019-12-04
  Description: There is an increasing body of evidence suggesting that transmission of respiratory viruses occurs through the inhalation of virus-laden particles.
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  Detection of infectious influenza virus in cough aerosols generated in a simulated patient examination room

  Mots-clés Airborne Transmission, Flu, Influenza, Mask, Masks, N95, Occupational Exposure, R-Res&Pub
  Créateur: Noti, John D., William G. Lindsley, Francoise M. Blachere, Gang Cao, Michael L. Kashon, Robert E. Thewlis, Cynthia M. McMillen, William P. King, Jonathan V. Szalajda, and Donald H. Beezhold.
  Sujet: Research
  Type d'élément: Publication
  Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2012-06
  Description: The potential for aerosol transmission of infectious influenza virus (ie, in healthcare facilities) is controversial. We constructed a simulated patient examination room that contained coughing and breathing manikins to determine whether coughed…
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  High humidity leads to loss of infectious influenza virus from simulated coughs

  Mots-clés Airborne Transmission, Flu, Infection Prevention and Control, Influenza, Occupational Exposure, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen
  Créateur: Noti, John D., Francoise M. Blachere, Cynthia M. McMillen, William G. Lindsley, Michael L. Kashon, Denzil R. Slaughter, and Donald H. Beezhold.
  Sujet: Research
  Type d'élément: Publication
  Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2013
  Description: The role of relative humidity in the aerosol transmission of influenza was examined in a simulated examination room containing coughing and breathing manikins.
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  A Cough Aerosol Simulator for the Study of Disease Transmission by Human Cough-Generated Aerosols

  Mots-clés Airborne Transmission, Flu, Infection Prevention and Control, Influenza, Occupational Exposure, R-Res&Pub
  Créateur: Lindsley, William G., Jeffrey S. Reynolds, Jonathan V. Szalajda, John D. Noti, and Donald H. Beezhold.
  Sujet: Research
  Type d'élément: Publication
  Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2013
  Description: Aerosol particles expelled during human coughs are a potential pathway for infectious disease transmission. However, the importance of airborne transmission is unclear for many diseases.
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  Quantity and size distribution of cough-generated aerosol particles produced by influenza patients during and after illness

  Mots-clés Airborne Transmission, Flu, Infection Prevention and Control, Influenza, Occupational Exposure, R-Res&Pub
  Créateur: Lindsley, William G., Terri A. Pearce, Judith B. Hudnall, Kristina A. Davis, Stephen M. Davis, Melanie A. Fisher, Rashida Khakoo, Jan E. Palmer, Karen E. Clark, Ismail Celik, Christopher C. Coffey, Francoise M. Blachere, and Donald H. Beezhold.
  Sujet: Research
  Type d'élément: Publication
  Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2012
  Description: The question of whether influenza is transmitted to a significant degree by aerosols remains controversial, in part, because little is known about the quantity and size of potentially infectious airborne particles produced by people with influenza.
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  Viable influenza A virus in airborne particles from human coughs

  Mots-clés Airborne Transmission, Flu, Infection Prevention and Control, Influenza, R-Res&Pub
  Créateur: Lindsley, William G., John D. Noti, Francoise M. Blachere, Robert E. Thewlis, Stephen B. Martin, Sreekumar Othumpangat, Bahar Noorbakhsh, William T. Goldsmith, Abhishek Vishnu, Jan E. Palmer, Karen E. Clark, and Donald H. Beezhold.
  Sujet: Research
  Type d'élément: Publication
  Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2015
  Description: Patients with influenza release aerosol particles containing the virus into their environment.
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  Dispersion and exposure to a cough-generated aerosol in a simulated medical examination room

  Mots-clés Airborne Transmission, Flu, Influenza, Occupational Exposure, R-Res&Pub
  Créateur: Lindsley, William G., William P. King, Robert E. Thewlis, Jeffrey S. Reynolds, Kedar Panday, Gang Cao, and Jonathan V. Szalajda.
  Sujet: Research
  Type d'élément: Publication
  Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2012
  Description: Few studies have quantified the dispersion of potentially infectious bioaerosols produced by patients in the health care environment and the exposure of health care workers to these particles.
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  Measurements of airborne influenza virus in aerosol particles from human coughs

  Mots-clés Airborne Transmission, Flu, Infection Prevention and Control, Influenza, R-Res&Pub
  Créateur: Lindsley, William G., Francoise M. Blachere, Robert E. Thewlis, Abhishek Vishnu, Kristina A. Davis, Gang Cao, Jan E. Palmer, Karen E. Clark, Melanie A. Fisher, Rashida Khakoo, and Donald H. Beezhold.
  Sujet: Research
  Type d'élément: Publication
  Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2010-11-30
  Description: Influenza is thought to be communicated from person to person by multiple pathways. However, the relative importance of different routes of influenza transmission is unclear.