Browse Items (292 total)

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  CDC Planning and Preparedness Resources for Pandemic Flu

  Tags Flu, Influenza, Pandemic, Preparedness, R-EM
  Creator: CDC
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2016-11-03
  Description: About Pandemic Influenza Purpose An influenza pandemic is a global outbreak of a new influenza A virus that is very different from current and recently circulating human seasonal influenza A viruses. Pandemics happen when new (novel) influenza A…
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  Are We There Yet? Laboratory Preparedness for Emerging Infectious Diseases.

  Tags Diagnosis, Infection Prevention and Control, Lab, Laboratory, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-Lab, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Special Pathogens
  Creator: Burnham, C. D., J. H. Kwon, E. M. Burd, S. Campbell, P. C. Iwen and M. B. Miller
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-11-10
  Description: We have asked 4 experts in this field to share their thoughts on contemporary challenges in laboratory preparedness for emerging infectious diseases.
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  Editorial Commentary: Considerations of Favipiravir as a Medical Countermeasure in Future Randomized Controlled Trials Against Ebola Virus Disease

  Tags Clinical Trial, Ebola, Experimental Drugs, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics
  Creator: Kraft, C. S.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-11-15
  Description: Since the discovery of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976, outbreaks of EVD had been mainly confined to rural areas (http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/history/chronology.html)...
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  Long-term Management of Panuveitis and Iris Heterochromia in an Ebola Survivor

  Tags Ebola, Example, Eye/Ocular Health, Follow up, Public Health, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Specimen Collection, Survivors
  Creator: Shantha, J. G., I. Crozier, J. B. Varkey, C. S. Kraft, G. M. Lyon, 3rd, A. K. Mehta, R. D. Carlson, C. E. Hill, G. Kumar, M. R. Debiec, P. S. Patel, T. W. Olsen, R. B. Nussenblatt, D. F. Martin, U. Stroher, T. M. Uyeki, B. S. Ribner, J. R. Smith and…
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-12-01
  Description: The 2013-2016 West African Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak has been the largest in history with 28,616 cases and 11,310 deaths in the highest transmission countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia.

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  Acute, Generalized Vesicular or Pustular Rash Illness Testing Protocol in the United States

  Tags Diagnosis, Example, Laboratory Testing, Mpox, Protocol, R-Lab, R-Res&Pub, Smallpox, Special Pathogens
  Creator: CDC
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2016-12-01
  Description: This protocol has been developed to guide the sequence and type of laboratory testing to be undertaken in situations involving specimens from patients with acute, generalized vesicular or pustular rash illness, or suspected smallpox vaccine (vaccinia…

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  Person Under Investigation Case Studies

  Tags Identify, Isolate, Person Under Investigation (PUI), R-Lead, R-T&E
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2017
  Description: Past In Person Course Presentation: Session Outline: Go over case presentation of potential PUIs. Work through discussion questions in small groups and share thoughts with the larger group. Your group may come up with additional questions for…
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  PPE Training the Trainer

  Tags Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-T&E, Staff Support, Staffing
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2017
  Description: Past In Person Course Presentation.Objectives: Review key concepts of personal protective equipment (PPE). Clarify competency: Theory, Practice and Use. Discuss strategies for developing PPE courses. Discuss ways of maintaining ongoing PPE…

• Recommendations for Assessment of Blood Donor Eligibility, Donor Deferral and Blood Product Management in Response to Ebola Virus

  Tags Ebola, Example, Lab, Laboratory, Public Health, R-T&C, Specimen Collection, Specimen Handling, Therapeutics
  Creator: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2017-01-01
  Description: This guidance represents the current thinking of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) on this topic. It does not establish any rights for any person and is not binding on FDA or the public. You can use an alternative approach if it…

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• Completing the Development of Ebola Vaccines: CURRENT STATUS, REMAINING CHALLENGES, AND RECOMMENDATIONS

  Tags Clinical Trial, Ebola, Ethics, Federal Research Partners, Prophylaxis, Public Health, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Research Design, Vaccine Study
  Creator: University of Minnesota, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-01-17
  Description: In the third major report from the Wellcome Trust–CIDRAP Ebola Vaccine Team B reflects on progress to date and the remaining challenges faced.

• Care and Protection of Children in the West African Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic: Lessons learned for future public health emergencies

  Tags Ebola, Pediatrics, Public Health, R-SP, R-T&C, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, UNICEF
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2017-01-23
  Description: Report and webinar about child protection response with Ebola.