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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  Laboratory test support for Ebola patients within a high-containment facility

  Tags Diagnosis, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Lab, Laboratory, Laboratory Testing, Malaria, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-Lab, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Hill, C. E., E. M. Burd, C. S. Kraft, E. L. Ryan, A. Duncan, A. M. Winkler, J. C. Cardella, J. C. Ritchie and T. G. Parslow
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2014-08-01
  Description: Two adult United States (US) nationals contracted the Ebola virus while on a humanitarian mission in Africa amidst a large Ebola outbreak there.
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  Ebola virus disease: preparedness and infection control lessons learned from two biocontainment units

  Tags Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Isolation/Biocontainment, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-T&E, Training
  Creator: Hewlett, A. L., J. B. Varkey, P. W. Smith and B. S. Ribner
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-08-01
  Description: This review details infection control issues encountered in the management of patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD), with emphasis on how these issues were confronted in two biocontainment patient care units in the United States.

• High-Level Isolation Unit Infection Control Procedures

  Tags Decontamination, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Physical Infrastructure, R-PhIn, Special Pathogens
  Creator: Herstein, J. J., P. D. Biddinger, S. G. Gibbs, A. B. Le, K. C. Jelden, A. L. Hewlett and J. J. Lowe
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-10-01
  Description: The 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa prompted a select group of US hospitals to establish high-level isolation units equipped with advanced engineering controls, trained staff, and stringent protocols to safely treat highly infectious disease…

• Clinical challenges in isolation care.

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Critical Care, Infection Prevention and Control, Nursing, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C
  Creator: Beam, E., S. G. Gibbs, A. L. Hewlett, P. C. Iwen, S. L. Nuss and P. W. Smith
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-04-01
  Description: In 2014, the authors published the results of a study investigating nurses' use of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the care of a live simulated patient requiring contact and airborne precautions. 
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  After the Ebola Outbreak: Lessons Learned

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, Experimental Drugs, Follow up, Infection Prevention and Control, Nursing, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Prophylaxis, R-PPE, Survivors, Therapeutics, Training, Translational Research
  Creator: Loftus, Mary (editor), Emory Medicine
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2018-02-20
  Description: In the wake of caring for four patients with active Ebola virus in 2014, Emory clinicians have taken stock of lessons learned in infectious disease prevention, therapeutic care, and health aftereffects and are sharing that information broadly with…
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  Implementation of an educational program for nursing students amidst the Ebola virus disease epidemic

  Tags Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Just in Time training (JIT), Nursing, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-T&E, Training
  Creator: Ferranti, E. P., L. Wands, K. A. Yeager, B. Baker, M. K. Higgins, J. L. Wold and S. B. Dunbar
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-08
  Description: Implementation of an educational program for nursing students amidst the Ebola virus disease epidemic
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  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): CDC's Response to the West African Ebola Epidemic

  Tags Autoclave, Communications, CONOPS, Decontamination, Donning and Doffing, Ebola, Emergency Department, Emergency Management, EMS, Federal, Identify, Infection Prevention and Control, Inform, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Occupational Health, Patient Care, Patient Transport, Person Under Investigation (PUI), Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Physical Infrastructure, Pre-hospital Transport, Public Health, R-PPE, Special Pathogens, Staffing, Staffing Model, Training, Waste
  Creator: CDC
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2024-04-23
  Description: U.S. Healthcare Workers and Settings | Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever | CDC

• Nebraska Biocontainment Unit Webinars

  Tags Communications, Diagnosis, Donning and Doffing, Ebola, Emergency Department, Emergency Management, Epidemic, Epidemiology, Ethics, Example, Immunology, Infection Prevention and Control, Lab, Laboratory, Laboratory Testing, Nebraska Biocontainment Unit (NBU), Nursing, Outbreaks, Outcomes, Patient Care, Patient Transport, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Prophylaxis, Public Health, Public Relations, Quarantine, R-PPE, Specimen Handling, Specimen Transport, Therapeutics, Virology, Waste
  Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Webinar
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-08
  Description: Resources - National Ebola Training and Education Center

  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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  EMS Infectious Disease Playbook

  Tags Airborne Transmission, CONOPS, Contact Transmission, Donning and Doffing, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Emergency Management, EMS, Infection Prevention and Control, MERS-CoV, Novel Pathogen, Patient Transport, Person Under Investigation (PUI), Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-PreH, Respiratory Pathogen, SARS, Special Pathogens, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: ASPR TRACIE
  Subject: Emergency Medical Services
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2023-06
  Description: ASPR TRACIE Transport playbook: This playbook synthesizes multiple sources of information in a single planning document addressing the full spectrum of infectious agents to create a concise reference resource for emergency medical services (EMS)…