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

• Building a National Capability to Monitor and Assess Medical Countermeasure Use During a Public Health Emergency: Going Beyond the Last Mile: Proceedings of a Workshop

  Tags Ethics, Federal Research Partners, Informed Consent, Institutional Review Board (IRB), Patient Care, Prophylaxis, Public Health, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study
  Creator: National Academies of Sciences, E. and Medicine
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-10-31
  Description: During public health emergencies (PHEs) involving chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear threats or emerging infectious diseases, medical countermeasures (MCMs) (e.g., drugs, vaccines, devices) may need to be dispensed or administered to…
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  Treatment of Ebola

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: Mehta, A. K., G. M. Lyon and J. B. Varkey
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-04-23
  Description: To the Editor: We were struck by the similarity of transient vascular leak in Ebola virus disease (EVD), as reported by Lyon et al. (Dec. 18 issue),1 with that which occurs in dengue....

• Clinical Management of Patients with Ebola Virus Disease in High-Resource Settings

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Staffing, Staffing Model, Therapeutics
  Creator: Marshall Lyon, G., A. K. Mehta and B. S. Ribner
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-06-11
  Description: Like most viral illnesses in humans, supportive care of the patient is the mainstay of clinical care for patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD).
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  Clinical care of two patients with Ebola virus disease in the United States

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Staffing, Staffing Model, Therapeutics
  Creator: Lyon, G. M., A. K. Mehta, J. B. Varkey, K. Brantly, L. Plyler, A. K. McElroy, C. S. Kraft, J. S. Towner, C. Spiropoulou, U. Stroher, T. M. Uyeki, B. S. Ribner and U. Emory Serious Communicable Diseases
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2014-12-18
  Description: West Africa is currently experiencing the largest outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in history.

• Environmental infection control considerations for Ebola

  Tags Contact Transmission, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Physical Infrastructure, R-IPC
  Creator: Lowe, J. J., P. L. Olinger, S. G. Gibbs, K. Rengarajan, E. L. Beam, K. C. Boulter, M. M. Schwedhelm, A. K. Hayes, C. J. Kratochvil, S. Vanairsdale, B. Frislie, J. Lewis, A. L. Hewlett, P. W. Smith, B. Gartland and B. S. Ribner
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-07-01
  Description: The growing Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, coupled with the transport of patients to the United States for treatment and the first US Ebola case identified September 30, 2014, in Texas, have driven hospitals throughout the United States to be…

• Nebraska biocontainment unit design and operations

  Tags Equipment and Supplies, Infection Prevention and Control, Isolation/Biocontainment, NSPS 1, NSPS 2, Physical Infrastructure, R-PhIn, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Lenaghan, P. A. and M. Schwedhelm
  Subject: Physical Infrastructure
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-06-01
  Description: Planning and design of a unique biocontainment unit specifically for care of patients with rare and highly infectious diseases presented an opportunity for nurse leaders to engage staff in crucial groundbreaking decisions.

• A Highly Infectious Disease Care Network in the US Healthcare System

  Tags Public Health, R-Gen, R-Res&Pub, Special Pathogens
  Creator: Le, A. B., P. D. Biddinger, P. W. Smith, J. J. Herstein, D. A. Levy, S. G. Gibbs and J. J. Lowe
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-06-01
  Description: During the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the United States responded by stratifying hospitals into 1 of 3 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-designated categories-based on the hospital's ability to identify, isolate, assess,…

• The National Ebola Training and Education Center: Preparing the United States for Ebola and Other Special Pathogens

  Tags Ebola, Isolation/Biocontainment, NETEC, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, Special Pathogens, Training
  Creator: Kratochvil, C. J., L. Evans, B. S. Ribner, J. J. Lowe, M. C. Harvey, R. C. Hunt, A. J. Tumpey, R. P. Fagan, M. M. Schwedhelm, S. Bell, J. Maher, C. S. Kraft, N. V. Cagliuso, Sr., S. Vanairsdale, A. Vasa and P. W. Smith
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-06-01
  Description: The National Ebola Training and Education Center (NETEC) was established in 2015 in response to the 2014-2016 Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa.

• Caring for Patients With Ebola: A Challenge in Any Care FacilityEbola Containment Care

  Tags Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C
  Creator: Kortepeter, M. G., P. W. Smith, A. Hewlett and T. J. Cieslak
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-02-06
  Description: The largest outbreak of Ebola virus continues unabated in West Africa. With the recent death of a patient with Ebola virus disease at a hospital in Dallas, Texas, and the sobering reality that nosocomial spread has occurred in a U.S. facility, U.S.…
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  U.S. Ebola Treatment Center Clinical Laboratory Support

  Tags Biosafety, Diagnosis, Ebola, Example, Isolation/Biocontainment, Lab, Laboratory, Laboratory Testing, R-Lab, R-Res&Pub, Specimen Collection, Specimen Handling
  Creator: Jelden, K. C., P. C. Iwen, J. J. Herstein, P. D. Biddinger, C. S. Kraft, L. Saiman, P. W. Smith, A. L. Hewlett, S. G. Gibbs and J. J. Lowe
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-04-01
  Description: Fifty-five hospitals in the United States have been designated Ebola treatment centers (ETCs) by their state and local health authorities.

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