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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

• Ebola dashboard RDC (EVD dashboard DRC)

  Tags Ebola, Outbreaks, Outcomes, R-Gen
  Creator: WHO Africa
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2019-09-18
  Description: Dashboard showing the data from the DRC 2018-2019 Ebola outbreak in graphs, maps, and timelines. BON A SAVOIR (GOOD TO KNOW):Visualisez la cartographie animée 1 année après /Check out 1 year of Ebola animated maps Certaines données géographiques de…
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  Ebola Infection in Pregnancy

  Tags Ebola, Labor and Delivery, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, R-T&C, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Haddad, Lisa B., John Horton, Bruce S. Ribner, and Denise J. Jamieson.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-03
  Description: The 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak primarily based in 3 West African countries, had far-reaching global effects.
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  Pregnant Women and the Ebola Crisis

  Tags Contact Transmission, Ebola, Epidemiology, Infection Prevention and Control, Labor and Delivery, Neonates, Outbreaks, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, R-T&C, Vaccine Study
  Creator: Haddad, Lisa B., Denise J. Jamieson, and Sonja A. Rasmussen.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-12-27
  Description: On August 1, 2018, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) reported the emergence of another Ebola virus outbreak, the 10th in the DRC since the virus was discovered in 1976. As of November 13, 2018, there were 341 cases and…

• U.S. Medical Examiner/Coroner capability to handle highly infectious decedents.

  Tags Decedent Management, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-DM, Special Pathogens
  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…

• Need for Aeromedical Evacuation High-Level Containment Transport Guidelines.

  Tags Ebola, EMS, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Patient Transport, Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-PreH, R-Res&Pub, Special Pathogens
  Creator: Gibbs, Shawn G., Jocelyn J. Herstein, Aurora B. Le, Elizabeth L. Beam, Theodore J. Cieslak, James V. Lawler, Joshua L. Santarpia, Terry L. Stentz, Kelli R. Kopocis-Herstein, Chandran Achutan, Gary W. Carter, and John J. Lowe.
  Subject: Pre-Hospital
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-05
  Description: Circumstances exist that call for the aeromedical evacuation high-level containment transport (AE-HLCT) of patients with highly hazardous communicable diseases.

• Clinical Laboratory Equipment Manufacturer Policies on Highly Hazardous Communicable Diseases.

  Tags Example, Lab, Laboratory, Outbreaks, Public Health, R-Lab, R-PhIn, R-Res&Pub, Special Pathogens
  Creator: Herstein, Jocelyn J., Sean A. Buehler, Aurora B. Le, John J. Lowe, Peter C. Iwen, and Shawn G. Gibbs.
  Subject: Physical Infrastructure
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-06-20
  Description: The 2014-2016 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa prompted a shift in how US institutions and agencies respond to cases of highly hazardous communicable diseases (HHCDs).

  Example only: NETEC provides this item for reference purposes but does not endorse its content. Newer versions may be in place at the providing institution.

• Ebola Virus Disease Preparations Do Not Protect the United States Against Other Infectious Outbreaks.

  Tags Ebola, Emergency Management, Federal, R-EM, R-Res&Pub, Special Pathogens
  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.

• Ebola Virus Disease: Clinical Challenges, Recognition, and Management.

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Ebola, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Special Pathogens, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Beam, Elizabeth L., Michelle M. Schwedhelm, Kathleen C. Boulter, Angela M. Vasa, LuAnn Larson, Theodore J. Cieslak, John J. Lowe, Jocelyn J. Herstein, Christopher J. Kratochvil, and Angela L. Hewlett.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-03-26
  Description: The 2014 to 2016 Ebola outbreak response resulted in many lessons learned about biocontainment patient care, leading to enhanced domestic capabilities for highly infectious and hazardous communicable diseases. Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All…

• Subsequent mortality in survivors of Ebola virus disease in Guinea: a nationwide retrospective cohort study

  Tags Ebola, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Research, Survivors
  Creator: Keita, Mory, Boubacar Diallo, Samuel Mesfin, Abdourahmane Marega, Koumpingnin Yacouba Nebie, N'Faly Magassouba, Ahmadou Barry, Seydou Coulibaly, Boubacar Barry, Mamadou Oury Baldé, Raymond Pallawo, Sadou Sow, Alpha Oumar Bah, Mamadou Saliou Balde,…
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-09-04
  Description: A record number of people survived Ebola virus infection in the 2013–16 outbreak in west Africa, and the number of survivors has increased after subsequent outbreaks.
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  Ebola virus disease and pregnancy - A review of the current knowledge of Ebola virus pathogenesis, maternal and neonatal outcomes

  Tags Labor and Delivery, Outcomes, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, Vaccine Study
  Creator: Bebell, Lisa M., Titilope Oduyebo, and Laura E. Riley.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-03-15
  Description: The 2014-2016 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa devastated local health systems and caused thousands of deaths.