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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  Waste Management from Patients Being Treated for Mpox Virus

  Tags Archived, Blog, Category A, Mpox, R-IPC, Special Pathogens, Waste, Waste Management
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Waste Management
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2021-07-21
  Description: The United States recently had a case of Mpox virus diagnosed in a patient in Dallas County, Texas. Organizations in the U.S. now preparing for the potential need to handle patients under investigation or patients with the Mpox virus must also…
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  Hazardous Materials: Infectious Substances; Harmonization With the United Nations Recommendations

  Tags Category A, Ebola, Guanarito virus, Mpox, Nipah (NiV), R-IPC, Special Pathogens, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, Waste
  Creator: the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
  Subject: Waste Management
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2005-05-19
  Description: The requirements adopted for the UN Recommendations establish a two-tiered classification system for Division 6.2 materials—Category A and Category B. A Category A infectious substance poses a higher degree of risk than a Category B infectious…
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  Category A Waste Management Tips for Ebola Virus Disease

  Tags Blog, Category A, Ebola, R-WM, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, Waste Management
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Waste Management
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2019-08-29
  Description: When treating a patient with Ebola virus disease, hospitals and health care providers must safely handle, transport, and dispose of waste. Dr. Shawn Gibbs, PhD, MBA, CIH executive associate dean and professor with Indiana University School of Public…
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  Pathogen Safety Data Sheets: Infectious Substances – Monkeypox virus

  Tags Mpox, R-Gen, Special Pathogens
  Creator: Public Health Agency of Canada
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2011-02-18
  Description: PATHOGEN SAFETY DATA SHEET - INFECTIOUS SUBSTANCES SECTION I - INFECTIOUS AGENTSECTION II – HAZARD IDENTIFICATIONSECTION III - DISSEMINATIONSECTION IV - STABILITY AND VIABILITYSECTION V – FIRST AID / MEDICALSECTION VI - LABORATORY HAZARDSSECTION VII…
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  Monkeypox Case Definition

  Tags Mpox, R-T&C
  Creator: North Carolina Communicable Disease Manual
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2007-11
  Description: NC Communicable Disease Manual/Case Definitions: MonkeypoxFrom: https://epi.dph.ncdhhs.gov/cd/lhds/manuals/cd/reportable_diseases.html
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  Mpox: Information For Clinicians

  Tags CDC, Mpox, R-T&C, Special Pathogens
  Creator: CDC
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2019-10-08
  Description: Information for clinicians related to Mpox:The first symptoms of mpox include fever, malaise, headache, and sometimes sore throat and cough. A distinguishing feature of mpox from smallpox is lymphadenopathy (swollen lymph nodes). This typically…
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  About Mpox

  Tags CDC, Mpox, R-Gen, Special Pathogens
  Creator: CDC
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2021-07-16
  Description: General information about Mpox.Mpox is a rare disease that is caused by infection with mpox virus. Mpox virus belongs to the Orthopoxvirus genus in the family Poxviridae. The Orthopoxvirus genus also includes variola virus (the cause of smallpox),…
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  Mpox Fact Sheet

  Tags Mpox, R-Gen, Special Pathogens
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2024-08-26
  Description: Information on key facts, outbreaks, transmission, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and vaccine, the natural host of the mpox virus, prevention, reducing the risk of zoonotic transmission, reducing the risk of human-to-human transmission,…

• Implementation of the Ebola Virus Persistence in Ocular Tissues and Fluids (EVICT) study: Lessons learned for vision health systems strengthening in Sierra Leone

  Tags Ebola, Eye/Ocular Health, R-Res&Pub, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Shantha, J. G., I. Crozier, C. S. Kraft, D. G. Grant, A. Goba, B. R. Hayek, C. Hartley, K. G. Barnes, T. M. Uyeki, J. Schieffelin, R. F. Garry, D. G. Bausch, P. E. Farmer, J. G. Mattia, M. J. Vandy, and S. Yeh.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2021-07-09
  Description: Following the West African Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak of 2013-2016 and more recent EVD outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, thousands of EVD survivors are at-risk for sequelae including uveitis, which can lead to unremitting…
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  Interactive, Hands-On Training for Hospital Workers Increases Level of Special Pathogen Preparedness

  Tags Ebola, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Preparedness, R-T&E, Special Pathogens
  Creator: Tolf, Eleanor, and Syra Madad.
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2021-06-18
  Description: The purpose of this evaluation was to determine the effect of intensive, interactive training on hospital workers’ preparedness for special pathogen cases by utilizing the Frontline Facility Special Pathogens Training Course created by the Systemwide…