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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

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  Risk Factors for SARS Transmission from Patients Requiring Intubation: A Multicentre Investigation in Toronto, Canada

  Tags Airborne Transmission, Coronavirus, Infection Prevention and Control, Occupational Exposure, R-T&C, Respiratory Pathogen, SARS
  Creator: Raboud, Janet, Altynay Shigayeva, Allison McGeer, Erika Bontovics, Martin Chapman, Denise Gravel, Bonnie Henry, Stephen Lapinsky, Mark Loeb, L. Clifford McDonald, Marianna Ofner, Shirley Paton, Donna Reynolds, Damon Scales, Sandy Shen, Andrew Simor,…
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2010-05-19
  Description: In the 2003 Toronto SARS outbreak, SARS-CoV was transmitted in hospitals despite adherence to infection control procedures.
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  Severe Febrile Respiratory Illnesses As a Cause of Mass Critical Care

  Tags Critical Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Respiratory Pathogen, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Sandrock, Christian E.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2008-01
  Description: Febrile respiratory illnesses with respiratory failure are one of the most common reasons for admission to the intensive care unit.
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  Clinical management and infection control of SARS: lessons learned.

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Coronavirus, Infection Prevention and Control, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, SARS
  Creator: Cheng, Vincent C. C., Jasper F. W. Chan, Kelvin K. W. To, and K. Y. Yuen.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2013-11
  Description: The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 was the first emergence of an important human pathogen in the 21st century.

• A family cluster of SARS-CoV-2 infection involving 11 patients in Nanjing, China

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Airborne Transmission, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Droplet Transmission, Outbreaks, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Huang, Rui, Juan Xia, Yuxin Chen, Chun Shan, and Chao Wu.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-02-28
  Description: Human infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become a global health concern.

• Treating Ebola in eastern DRC

  Tags Ebola, Outbreaks, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Treatment and Care, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Rojek, Amanda M., Shevin T. Jacob, and Jake Dunning.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03
  Description: Since the onset of the west Africa Ebola virus outbreak, there has been remarkable progress in efforts to provide patients with improved supportive care and access to experimental treatments.

• De-isolating COVID-19 Suspect Cases: A Continuing Challenge

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Infection Prevention and Control, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Tay, Jun-Yang, Poh Lian Lim, Kalisvar Marimuthu, Sapna Pradip Sadarangani, Li Min Ling, Brenda Sze Peng Ang, Monica Chan, Yee-Sin Leo, and Shawn Vasoo.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-02-26
  Description: To the Editor—As of 15 February 2020, Singapore had screened a total of 991 suspected cases for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), of which 72 cases tested positive, 812 cases tested negative, and the remaining 107 had pending results.

• Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Epidemiology, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Guan, Wei-jie, Zheng-yi Ni, Yu Hu, Wen-hua Liang, Chun-quan Ou, Jian-xing He, Lei Liu, Hong Shan, Chun-liang Lei, David S. C. Hui, Bin Du, Lan-juan Li, Guang Zeng, Kwok-Yung Yuen, Ru-chong Chen, Chun-li Tang, Tao Wang, Ping-yan Chen, Jie Xiang,…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-02-28
  Description: Since December 2019, when coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) emerged in Wuhan city and rapidly spread throughout China, data have been needed on the clinical characteristics of the affected patients.
  

• Game consumption and the 2019 novel coronavirus

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, R-Res&Pub, Zoonotic
  Creator: Li, Jie, Jun Li, Xiaoru Xie, Xiaomei Cai, Jian Huang, Xuemei Tian, and Hong Zhu.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-02-07
  Description: In December, 2019, the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infecting humans was first identified in Wuhan, China.
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  Different types of door-opening motions as contributing factors to containment failures in hospital isolation rooms

  Tags Coronavirus, Flu, Infection Prevention and Control, Influenza, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Occupational Exposure, Physical Infrastructure, R-PhIn, R-Res&Pub, SARS, Staff Support, Staffing
  Creator: Tang, Julian W., Andre Nicolle, Jovan Pantelic, Christian A. Klettner, Ruikun Su, Petri Kalliomaki, Pekka Saarinen, Hannu Koskela, Kari Reijula, Panu Mustakallio, David K. W. Cheong, Chandra Sekhar, and Kwok Wai Tham.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2013-06-24
  Description: Hospital isolation rooms are vital for the containment (when under negative pressure) of patients with, or the protection (when under positive pressure) of patients, from airborne infectious agents.
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  Clinical and epidemiological predictors of transmission in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

  Tags Airborne Transmission, Coronavirus, Diagnosis, Droplet Transmission, Epidemiology, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-Res&Pub, SARS
  Creator: Chen, Mark I. C., Angela L. P. Chow, Arul Earnest, Hoe Nam Leong, and Yee Sin Leo.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2006
  Description: Only a minority of probable SARS cases caused transmission. We assess if any epidemiological or clinical factors in SARS index patients were associated with increased probability of transmission.