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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
Health Sector Resilience Checklist for High-Consequence Infectious Diseases

Tags Communications, Decontamination, Ebola, Emergency Management, EMS, Epidemic, High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID), Identify, Infection Prevention and Control, Inform, Isolate, Lab, Laboratory, Medical Surveillance, Outbreaks, Patient Transport, Person Under Investigation (PUI), Public Health, Quarantine, R-EM, Special Pathogens, Temperature Monitoring

Creator: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Subject: General
Item Type: Checklist
Date Last Updated: 2017-05-24
Description: Using lessons learned from treating Ebola patients in the US during the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, this paper works to develop an evidence-informed checklist that outlines action steps.
Surrogate Testing Suggests That Chlorine Dioxide Gas Exposure Would Not Inactivate Ebola Virus Contained in Environmental Blood Contamination

Tags Biosafety, Ebola, Lab, Laboratory, Laboratory Testing, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub, Specimen Handling

Creator: Lowe, J. J., A. L. Hewlett, P. C. Iwen, P. W. Smith and S. G. Gibbs
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2015-05-08
Description: The ability to decontaminate a room potentially containing the Ebola virus is important to healthcare facilities in the United States.
Two-Center Evaluation of Disinfectant Efficacy against Ebola Virus in Clinical and Laboratory Matrices

Tags Decontamination, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Lab, Laboratory, Physical Infrastructure, R-PhIn, R-Res&Pub, Terminal Clean

Creator: Sophie J. Smither, Lin Eastaugh, Claire Marie Filone, Denise Freeburger, Artemas Herzog, M. Stephen Lever, David M. Miller, Dana Mitzel, James W. Noah, Mary S. Reddick-Elick, Amy Reese, Michael Schuit, Carly B. Wlazlowski, Michael Hevey, and Victoria…
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2018-01-01
Description: Ebola virus (EBOV) in body fluids poses risk for virus transmission.
Surface Sampling of MERS-CoV in Health Care Settings: A Practical “How to” Protocol for Health Care and Public Health Professionals

Tags 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
Biosafety Level 3 Laboratories (BSL-3) Biosafety Cabinet Practices

Tags Biological Safety Cabinet (BSC), Biosafety, Infection Prevention and Control, Just in Time training (JIT), Laboratory, Occupational Exposure, R-Lab, Skills Video

Creator: NETEC
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Video
Date Last Updated: 2022-09-20
Description: This skills video will discuss safety tips when working with a special pathogen of concern within a biological safety cabinet, or BSC. NETEC Mission: To increase the capability of United States public health and health care systems to safely and…
MERS-CoV ED Lab Protocol - Main Campus

Tags Emergency Department, Lab, Laboratory, Laboratory Testing, MERS-CoV, R-Lab, Respiratory Pathogen, Specimen Collection, Specimen Handling, Specimen Transport

Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Protocol
Date Last Updated: 2017-03-15
Description: Nebraska - MERS CoV Resources
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.
Safety considerations in the laboratory testing of specimens suspected or known to contain Ebola virus

Tags Biosafety, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Lab, Laboratory, Laboratory Testing, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-Lab, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Specimen Handling

Creator: Iwen, P. C., P. W. Smith, A. L. Hewlett, C. J. Kratochvil, S. J. Lisco, J. N. Sullivan, S. G. Gibbs, J. J. Lowe, P. D. Fey, V. L. Herrera, A. R. Sambol, J. L. Wisecarver and S. H. Hinrichs
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2015-01-01
Description: Reference to the Ebola virus causes concern among all individuals, whether from the public or within the medical community.
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.