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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.
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Creator: CDC
Subject: Waste Management
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2023-04-20
Description: FAQs on Interim Guidance for Managers and Workers Handling Untreated Sewage from Suspected or Confirmed Individuals with Ebola in the U.S. | Cleaning and Decontamination | Public Health Planners | Ebola (Ebola Virus Disease) | CDC (CDC, accessed… -
Creator: CDC
Subject: Waste Management
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2023-04-20
Description: Who this is for: Workers who handle untreated sewage that comes from hospitals, medical facilities, and other facilities with confirmed individuals with Ebola. What this is for: To provide recommendations for workers on the types of personal… -
Creator: Farhad Memarzadeh, ASHE-FGI monograph
Subject: Physical Infrastructure
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2013
Description: Current recommended ventilation rates for health care facilities are not always based on hard data, but on experience. In this joint ASHE-FGI monograph, Farhad Memarzadeh, PhD, PE, looks at research on hospitals, schools, aircraft, and other vehicles…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: Schafer, Adam, Rui Xiong, Laura Cooper, Raghad Nowar, Hyun Lee, Yangfeng Li, Benjamin E. Ramirez, Norton P. Peet, Michael Caffrey, Gregory R. J. Thatcher, Erica Ollmann Saphire, Han Cheng, and Lijun Rong.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2021-02-04
Description: Many small molecules have been identified as entry inhibitors of filoviruses. However, a lack of understanding of the mechanism of action for these molecules limits further their development as anti-filoviral agents. Here we provide evidence that… -
Creator: Mbala-Kingebeni, Placide, Catherine Pratt, Mbusa Mutafali-Ruffin, Matthias G. Pauthner, Faustin Bile, Antoine Nkuba-Ndaye, Allison Black, Eddy Kinganda-Lusamaki, Martin Faye, Amuri Aziza, Moussa M. Diagne, Daniel Mukadi, Bailey White, James Hadfield,…
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2021-03-31
Description: During the 2018–2020 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, EVD was diagnosed in a patient who had received the recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus–based vaccine expressing a ZEBOV… -
Creator: Litvak, Mark, Katherine Miller, Tehnaz Boyle, Rachel Bedenbaugh, Christina Smith, David Meguerdichian, David Reisman, Paul Biddinger, Adam Licurse, and Eric Goralnick.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2021-03-10
Description: Disasters have many deleterious effects and are becoming more frequent. From a health-care perspective, disasters may cause periods of stress for hospitals and health-care systems. Telemedicine is a rapidly growing technology that has been used to… -
Creator: Strampe, Jamie, Danny A. Asogun, Emily Speranza, Meike Pahlmann, Ali Soucy, Sabrina Bockholt, Elisa Pallasch, Beate Becker-Ziaja, Sophie Duraffour, Nahid Bhadelia, Yemisi Ighodalo, Jennifer Oyakhilome, Emmanuel O. Omomoh, Thomas Olokor, Donatus I.…
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2021-01-20
Description: Lassa fever is endemic in several west African countries. Case-fatality rates ranging from 21% to 69% have been reported. The pathophysiology of the disease in humans and determinants of mortality remain poorly understood. We aimed to determine host… -
Creator: Blair, P. W., M. G. Kortepeter, L. G. Downey, C. S. Madar, I. L. Downs, K. A. Martins, F. Rossi, J. A. Williams, A. Madar, C. W. Schellhase, J. J. Bearss, X. Zeng, S. Bavari, V. Soloveva, J. B. Wells, K. S. Stuthman, N. L. Garza, S. A. Vantongeren,…
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-12-25
Description: Ebola virus disease (EVD) supportive care strategies are largely guided by retrospective observational research. This study investigated the effect of EVD supportive care algorithms on duration of survival in a controlled nonhuman primate (NHP)… -
Creator: Pollard, Andrew J., Odile Launay, Jean-Daniel Lelievre, Christine Lacabaratz, Sophie Grande, Neil Goldstein, Cynthia Robinson, Auguste Gaddah, Viki Bockstal, Aurelie Wiedemann, Maarten Leyssen, Kerstin Luhn, Laura Richert, Christine Bétard, Malick M.…
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-11-17
Description: To address the unmet medical need for an effective prophylactic vaccine against Ebola virus we assessed the safety and immunogenicity of three different two-dose heterologous vaccination regimens with a replication-deficient adenovirus type 26…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: Fausther-Bovendo, Hugues, and Gary Kobinger.
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-11-17
Description: The 2013–16 Ebola virus outbreak—the largest ever recorded—substantially hastened the development of an Ebola virus vaccine. Before this outbreak, the safety and immunogenicity of only two Ebola virus vaccine candidates (a DNA-based vaccine and a…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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