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• 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

• Ebola: Five Key Questions

  Tags Contact Transmission, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, R-Gen, Therapeutics
  Creator: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2018-05-14
  Description: Questions about Ebola explained
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  Ebola Characteristics Compared with Other Infectious Disease

  Tags Ebola, R-Gen, Special Pathogens
  Creator: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2018-05-14
  Description: This table presents Ebola characteristics compared with other infectious diseases.

• Ebola: Knowledge resources for responders

  Tags Archived, Communications, CONOPS, Decontamination, Donning and Doffing, Ebola, Emergency Department, Emergency Management, EMS, Identify, Infection Prevention and Control, Inform, International Response, 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-T&E, Special Pathogens, Staffing, Staffing Model, Training, Waste
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018-07-05
  Description: Decision-makers and frontline responders will find a set of resources on Ebola virus disease here. These resources can be used as refreshers for experienced personnel or as an introduction to the topic for everyone else. Most of the materials are…
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  Are You Preparing Suspected Ebola - Contaminated Waste For Transportation?

  Tags Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, R-IPC, Waste
  Creator: U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Hazardous Materials Safety (PHMSA)
  Subject: Waste Management
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2018-08-08
  Description: Poster with guidance for suspected Ebola-contaminated waste

• Identification and Characterization of Failures in Infectious Agent Transmission Precaution Practices in Hospitals

  Tags Contact Transmission, Donning and Doffing, Droplet Transmission, Infection Prevention and Control, Occupational Exposure, Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PM, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Staff Support, Staffing
  Creator: Sarah L. Krein, PhD, RN; Jeanmarie Mayer, MD; Molly Harrod, PhD; Lauren E. Weston, MPH; Lynn Gregory, NP; Laura Petersen, MHSA; Matthew H. Samore, MD; Frank A. Drews, PhD
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-08-01
  Description: Using personal protective equipment (PPE) and transmission-based precautions are primary strategies for reducing the transmission of infectious agents.
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  Marburg Virus Disease

  Tags Epidemiology, Infection Prevention and Control, Marburg, R-IPC, R-T&C, Special Pathogens, Treatment and Care, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: United Kingdom Department of Health
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2021-08-12
  Description: Gov.uk Marburg guidelines. From: Public Health England Published: 5 September 2014 Marburg virus is one of two viruses of the Filovirus family which, along with Ebola virus, can cause a severe and fatal haemorrhagic fever (VHF).

• State Strategies to Prevent and Respond to Disease Crises Through Medicaid and Public Health Partnerships

  Tags Emergency Management, Public Health, R-EM, R-Res&Pub, Special Pathogens
  Creator: National Academy for State Health Policy
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-07-24
  Description: Protecting public health in an era when infections can quickly spread from remote areas to major world cities requires creative and well-orchestrated responses from national, state, and local governments.

• Psychosocial Support During an Outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease

  Tags Behavioral Health, Emergency Management, International Response, Public Health, R-EM
  Creator: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2018-07-12
  Description: This briefing is based on the briefing note developed by the PS Centre in 2014 in connection with the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. It is also available in French. - Posted 12 July, 2018 by Louise Juul Hansen

• Products Approved for Other Bioterrorism Emergencies

  Tags Ebola, Experimental Drugs, MERS-CoV, Orthopox Virus, Plague, Prophylaxis, R-T&C, Respiratory Pathogen, Smallpox, Special Pathogens, Therapeutics, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2017-09-08
  Description: This site lists products for Botulism due to Clostridium botulinum toxin; Ebola Virus Disease (EVD); Glanders and Melioidosis due to Burkholderia mallei and B. pseudomallei, respectively; Plague due to Yersinia pestis; Smallpox due to Variola major…