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Discover Background Data and Resources:

• Get introduced to NETEC through the interactive timeline of special pathogens below.* This timeline describes some significant special pathogen events in recent history.

• Find out more about the 2014 Ebola outbreak and the development of the ASPR/CDC-supported network of healthcare facilities preparing for the next outbreak through the Ebola timeline.

• This NETEC Repository helps to provide training and educational resources to prepare for future special pathogen events.

• Explore the files BELOW THE TIMELINE to discover and learn more about Ebola and other Special Pathogens, an overview of special pathogens, clinically managing patients affected, and readying healthcare teams and systems to keep everyone safe.

Timeline of Special Pathogens:

*Click for a screen reader accessible table of this timeline.

Collection Resources

• The Toughest Triage — Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Equipment and Supplies, Pandemic, R-EM, R-Res&Pub, SARS-CoV-2
  Creator: Truog, Robert D., Christine Mitchell, and George Q. Daley.
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-23
  Description: The Covid-19 pandemic has led to severe shortages of many essential goods and services, from hand sanitizers and N-95 masks to ICU beds and ventilators. Although rationing is not unprecedented, never before has the American public been faced with the…

• Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Equipment and Supplies, Pandemic, R-EM, R-Res&Pub, SARS-CoV-2, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Emanuel, Ezekiel J., Govind Persad, Ross Upshur, Beatriz Thome, Michael Parker, Aaron Glickman, Cathy Zhang, Connor Boyle, Maxwell Smith, and James P. Phillips.
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-23
  Description: Covid-19 is officially a pandemic. It is a novel infection with serious clinical manifestations, including death, and it has reached at least 124 countries and territories.

• Temporal profiles of viral load in posterior oropharyngeal saliva samples and serum antibody responses during infection by SARS-CoV-2: an observational cohort study

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Epidemiology, Laboratory Testing, R-Res&Pub, SARS-CoV-2
  Creator: To, Kelvin Kai-Wang, Owen Tak-Yin Tsang, Wai-Shing Leung, Anthony Raymond Tam, Tak-Chiu Wu, David Christopher Lung, Cyril Chik-Yan Yip, Jian-Piao Cai, Jacky Man-Chun Chan, Thomas Shiu-Hong Chik, Daphne Pui-Ling Lau, Chris Yau-Chung Choi, Lin-Lei…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-23
  Description: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causes severe community and nosocomial outbreaks.

• SARS-CoV-2: virus dynamics and host response

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen, SARS-CoV-2, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Chen, Yu, and Lanjuan Li.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-23
  Description: Since December, 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected more than 100 000 patients globally.

• Interventions to mitigate early spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Singapore: a modelling study

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Airborne Transmission, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Droplet Transmission, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub, SARS-CoV-2
  Creator: Koo, Joel R., Alex R. Cook, Minah Park, Yinxiaohe Sun, Haoyang Sun, Jue Tao Lim, Clarence Tam, and Borame L. Dickens.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-23
  Description: Since the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak began in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Dec 31, 2019, 68 imported cases and 175 locally acquired infections have been reported in Singapore.

• Scientific and ethical basis for social-distancing interventions against COVID-19

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Ethics, Isolate, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Lewnard, Joseph A., and Nathan C. Lo.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-23
  Description: On Dec 31, 2019, the WHO China Country Office received notice of a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown aetiology in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei province.

• Viral dynamics in mild and severe cases of COVID-19

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Epidemiology, R-Res&Pub, Virology
  Creator: Liu, Yang, Li-Meng Yan, Lagen Wan, Tian-Xin Xiang, Aiping Le, Jia-Ming Liu, Malik Peiris, Leo L. M. Poon, and Wei Zhang.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-19
  Description: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a new pandemic disease. We previously reported that the viral load of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) peaks within the first week of disease onset.

• Estimation of COVID-19 outbreak size in Italy

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Airborne Transmission, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Droplet Transmission, Epidemic, Pandemic, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Tuite, Ashleigh R., Victoria Ng, Erin Rees, and David Fisman.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-19
  Description: Italy is currently experiencing an epidemic of COVID-19 which emerged in the Lombardy region.

• Safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of a chimpanzee adenovirus vectored Ebola vaccine in children in Africa: a randomised, observer-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial

  Tags Ebola, Pediatrics, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Tapia, Milagritos D., Samba O. Sow, Khardiata D. Mbaye, Aliou Thiongane, Birahim P. Ndiaye, Cheikh T. Ndour, Souleymane Mboup, Babajide Keshinro, Thompson N. Kinge, Guy Vernet, Jean Joel Bigna, Stephen Oguche, Kwadwo A. Koram, Kwaku P. Asante,…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-19
  Description: During the large 2013–16 Ebola virus outbreak caused by the Zaire Ebola virus, about 20% of cases were reported in children. This study is the first, to our knowledge, to evaluate an Ebola vaccine in children younger than 6 years.

• Safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of a chimpanzee adenovirus vectored Ebola vaccine in adults in Africa: a randomised, observer-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial

  Tags Ebola, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Tapia, Milagritos D., Samba O. Sow, Birahim P. Ndiaye, Khardiata D. Mbaye, Aliou Thiongane, Cheikh T. Ndour, Souleymane Mboup, Julie A. Ake, Babajide Keshinro, Gideon A. Akintunde, Thompson N. Kinge, Guy Vernet, Jean Joel Bigna, Stephen Oguche,…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-19
  Description: The 2014 Zaire Ebola virus disease epidemic accelerated vaccine development for the virus.