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

• Introduction to Ebola Disease: Managing Infectious Hazards

  Tags Communications, Decontamination, Donning and Doffing, Ebola, Emergency Department, Emergency Management, Identify, Infection Prevention and Control, Inform, International Response, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Lab, Laboratory, Patient Care, Patient Transport, Person Under Investigation (PUI), Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Pre-hospital Transport, Public Health, R-PPE, Special Pathogens, Training, Waste
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: General
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018-05-09
  Description: WHO Ebola disease course slides, description of the virus and infection prevention and control

• EMS & Prehospital

  Tags Donning and Doffing, Emergency Department, Emergency Management, EMS, Infection Prevention and Control, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-PreH, R-T&E, Waste
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018
  Description: Past in Person Course Presentation.Course Learning Objectives: Increase healthcare worker knowledge and understanding of serious communicable diseases (smallpox, SARS, MERS, Ebola, novel influenza). Increase understanding of standard and…
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  NETEC State and Regional CONOPs

  Tags Archived, Assessment Facility, Communications, CONOPS, Frontline Facility, R-T&E, Treatment Facility
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2017
  Description: Past In Person Course Presentation. Review the requirements and roles of frontline facilities, assessment hospitals, State-designated Ebola Treatment Centers, Regional Ebola and Special Pathogen Treatment Centers (RESPTC)and health care coalitions…

• A Gap Analysis Survey of US Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) Members to Determine Highly Infectious Disease Training and Education Needs.

  Tags Emergency Department, EMS, Infection Prevention and Control, Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-Res&Pub, Training
  Creator: Le, A. B., R. Herron, J. J. Herstein, K. C. Jelden, E. L. Beam, S. G. Gibbs, J. J. Lowe and T. D. Smith 
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-21
  Description: Despite lessons learned from the recent Ebola epidemic, attempts to survey and determine non-health care worker, industry-specific needs to address highly infectious diseases have been minimal.
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  Preparing for Serious Communicable Diseases in the United States: What the Ebola Virus Epidemic Has Taught Us

  Tags Antibodies, Contact Transmission, Critical Care, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Epidemic, Infection Prevention and Control, Outbreaks, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Prophylaxis, Public Health, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Varkey, J. B. and B. S. Ribner
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-06-01
  Description: Ending the West Africa Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak required an unprecedented international response.
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  Considerations for safe EMS transport of patients infected with Ebola virus

  Tags Ebola, EMS, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Transport, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-PreH, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Lowe, J. J., K. C. Jelden, P. J. Schenarts, L. E. Rupp, K. J. Hawes, B. M. Tysor, R. G. Swansiger, S. S. Schwedhelm, P. W. Smith and S. G. Gibbs
  Subject: Pre-Hospital
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-06-01
  Description: The Nebraska Biocontainment Unit through the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, recently received patients with confirmed Ebola virus from West Africa.
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  Nebraska Biocontainment Unit perspective on disposal of Ebola medical waste

  Tags Autoclave, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, NSPS 1, NSPS 2, NSPS 3, NSPS 4, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Public Health, R-WM, Waste
  Creator: Lowe, J. J., S. G. Gibbs, S. S. Schwedhelm, J. Nguyen and P. W. Smith
  Subject: Waste Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2014-12-01
  Description: Clinical practices surrounding the current Ebola epidemic have been center stage in discourse concerning research and practice of care.
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  Comment on "Ebola Virus Infection among Western Healthcare Workers Unable to Recall the Transmission Route"

  Tags Contact Transmission, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Occupational Exposure, Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PM, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Kortepeter, M. G., T. J. Cieslak, E. H. Kwon, P. W. Smith, C. J. Kratochvil and A. L. Hewlett
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-09-20
  Description: We read with interest the recent paper by Petti et al. entitled “Ebola Virus Infection among Western Healthcare Workers Unable to Recall the Transmission Route”...
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  Transport and Management of Patients With Confirmed or Suspected Ebola Virus Disease

  Tags Decontamination, Ebola, Emergency Department, EMS, Infection Prevention and Control, Isolate, Patient Transport, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-PreH, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Isakov, A., W. Miles, S. Gibbs, J. Lowe, A. Jamison and R. Swansiger
  Subject: Pre-Hospital
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-09-01
  Description: The foundation of safe care for patients with confirmed or suspected Ebola virus disease is effective infection control practice, which requires implementation of appropriate administrative policies, work practices, and environmental controls,…
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  Safe management of patients with serious communicable diseases: recent experience with Ebola virus

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Ebola, EMS, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, Patient Transport, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-PreH, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics
  Creator: Isakov, A., A. Jamison, W. Miles and B. Ribner
  Subject: Pre-Hospital
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2014-12-02
  Description: Health care workers (HCWs) in the emergency medical services (EMS) and hospital settings often encounter patients infected with dangerous communicable diseases.