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Creator: WHO
Subject: Training and Exercises
Item Type: Online Course
Date Last Updated: 2018-07-05
Description: Lassa fever, a viral haemorrhagic fever with symptoms similar to those of Ebola virus disease, is endemic in much of West Africa and usually sparks a seasonal outbreak from December to March. Humans usually become infected with Lassa virus from… -
Creator: WHO
Subject: Training and Exercises
Item Type: Online Course
Date Last Updated: 2018-07-05
Description: Pandemic influenza is an acute viral disease of the respiratory tract. It occurs when an influenza virus that was not previously circulating among people and to which most people have no immunity emerges and transmits among people. This course… -
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… -
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. -
Creator: CDC, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID)
Subject: General
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2018-08
Description: This document is a strategic roadmap for the work necessary to realize the center’s vision: prevent infections, protect people, and save lives. (CDC) -
Creator: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Subject: Research
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2018-08-13
Description: FDA CDER statisticians are designing trials with adaptive features to make clinical evaluation of new drug treatments more efficient and informative. (FDA)More information on the subject can be read here. -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Online Course
Date Last Updated: 2018-09-10
Description: It is critical that healthcare personnel have knowledge of Ebola and the implications for healthcare delivery in a biocontainment unit (BCU). In this course, learners will be able to describe pathogen-related factors that may warrant treatment in a… -
Creator: Gibbs, Shawn G., John J. Lowe, Aurora B. Le, Jocelyn J. Herstein, and Paul D. Biddinger.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2018-09-12
Description: The 2014–2016 West African Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic took the world by surprise. While 11 patients were treated in the United States, it challenged public health, health care, and emergency response infrastructures. -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Personnel Management
Item Type: Online Course
Date Last Updated: 2018-09-18
Description: This course will provide information on communication considerations when a facility is notified they will be receiving a patient with Ebola or other special pathogen. This will include information on communicating with staff, patients already in… -
Creator: Le, Aurora B., Erin G. Brooks, Lily A. McNulty, James R. Gill, Jocelyn J. Herstein, Janelle Rios, Scott J. Patlovich, Katelyn C. Jelden, Kendra K. Schmid, John J. Lowe, and Shawn G. Gibbs.
Subject: Decedent Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2018-11-06
Description: In the United States of America, Medical Examiners and Coroners (ME/Cs) investigate approximately 20% of all deaths. Unexpected deaths, such as those occurring due to a deceased person under investigation for a highly infectious disease, are likely…