Browse Items (1475 total)

• Need for Aeromedical Evacuation High-Level Containment Transport Guidelines.

  Tags Ebola, EMS, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Patient Transport, Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-PreH, R-Res&Pub, Special Pathogens
  Creator: Gibbs, Shawn G., Jocelyn J. Herstein, Aurora B. Le, Elizabeth L. Beam, Theodore J. Cieslak, James V. Lawler, Joshua L. Santarpia, Terry L. Stentz, Kelli R. Kopocis-Herstein, Chandran Achutan, Gary W. Carter, and John J. Lowe.
  Subject: Pre-Hospital
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-05
  Description: Circumstances exist that call for the aeromedical evacuation high-level containment transport (AE-HLCT) of patients with highly hazardous communicable diseases.
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  Pregnant Women and Vaccines Against Emerging Epidemic Threats: Ethics Guidance for Preparedness, Research, and Response

  Tags Epidemic, Ethics, Labor and Delivery, Neonates, Pediatrics, Public Health, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, Research, Treatment and Care, Vaccine Study
  Creator: Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, The Pregnancy Research Ethics for Vaccines, Epidemics, and New Technologies (PREVENT) Project
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-05-03
  Description: PREVENT Guidance This Guidance provides a roadmap for the ethically responsible, socially just, and respectful inclusion of the interests of pregnant women in the development and deployment of vaccines against emerging pathogens. The Guidance is a…
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  MERS-CoV ED Screening Algorithm

  Tags Emergency Department, Identify, Inform, Isolate, Leadership Toolbox, MERS-CoV, Mitigation Tools, Procedure, Process, Protocol, R-IIT, R-Lead
  Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine
  Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2019-05-08
  Description: Leadership Toolbox, Mitigation: MERS Co-V ED Screening Protocol, Nebraska Medical Center

• Struggling with Scale: Ebola’s Lessons for the Next Pandemic

  Tags Ebola, Legal, Outbreaks, Preparedness, R-EM, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Center for Global Development (CGD)
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-05-09
  Description: This report explores the lessons of the Ebola outbreak [2014-2015] through the lens of the US and UN policymakers who were forced to construct an unprecedented response in real time. It tells the story of their choices around four major policy…
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  Standard Operating Procedure - Transfer Center Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Call Tree

  Tags Communications, Frontline Facilities Tools, Inform, Internal Transport, Personnel Management, R-PM, Staffing
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2019-05-15
  Description: Transfer Center and Admission Criteria - Transfer Center Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Call Tree - Example

• Ebola Virus Disease: Insights from a Unique Patient and Ecological Analyses

  Tags Ebola, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Laboratory Testing, Outcomes, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Video
  Date Last Updated: 2019-05-29
  Description: CC Grand Rounds: Clinicopathologic Grand Rounds: Clinical Cases from the NIH: Clinical Center Ebola Virus: An Update on Ecology and Molecular Correlates of Critical Illness. This lecture by Vincent Munster and Daniel S. Chertow presents a case study…

• Remdesivir (GS-5734) protects African green monkeys from Nipah virus challenge

  Tags Nipah (NiV), R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Remdesivir
  Creator: Michael K. Lo, Friederike Feldmann, Joy M. Gary, Robert Jordan, Roy Bannister, Jacqueline Cronin, Nishi R. Patel, John D. Klena, Stuart T. Nichol, Tomas Cihlar, Sherif R. Zaki, Heinz Feldmann, Christina F. Spiropoulou, and Emmie de Wit.
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-05-29
  Description: Nipah virus is an emerging pathogen in the Paramyxoviridae family. Upon transmission of Nipah virus from its natural reservoir, Pteropus spp. fruit bats, to humans, it causes respiratory and neurological disease with a case-fatality rate about 70%.

• Longitudinal Analysis of the Human B Cell Response to Ebola Virus Infection

  Tags Ebola, Immunology, Outbreaks, R-Res&Pub, Research, Vaccine Study
  Creator: Davis CW, Jackson KJL, McElroy AK, Halfmann P, Huang J, Chennareddy C, Piper AE, Leung Y, Albariño CG, Crozier I, Ellebedy AH, Sidney J, Sette A, Yu T, Nielsen SCA, Goff AJ, Spiropoulou CF, Saphire EO, Cavet G, Kawaoka Y, Mehta AK, Glass PJ, Boyd SD,…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-05-30
  Description: Ebola virus (EBOV) remains a public health threat. We performed a longitudinal study of B cell responses to EBOV in four survivors of the 2014 West African outbreak.
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  Special Pathogens of Concern: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome

  Tags Identify, Isolation/Biocontainment, MERS-CoV, R-IPC, Special Pathogens
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2019-05-31
  Description: COURSE DESCRIPTION It is critical that healthcare personnel have knowledge of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and the implications for healthcare delivery in a biocontainment unit (BCU) or special pathogen isolation area. In this course,…

• Surface Sampling of MERS-CoV in Health Care Settings: A Practical “How to” Protocol for Health Care and Public Health Professionals

  Tags Coronavirus, Infection Prevention and Control, Lab, Laboratory, Laboratory Testing, MERS-CoV, Occupational Exposure, Public Health, R-IPC
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2019-06
  Description: WHO Draft MERS-CoV Surface sampling of MERS-CoV in health care settings:A practical “how to” protocol for health care and public health professionals, June 2019