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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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  Live neonates born to mothers with Ebola virus disease: a review of the literature.

  Tags Neonates, R-Res&Pub, R-SP
  Creator: CDC 2014 Ebola Response Children’s Health Team
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-12-10
  Description: Ebola virus disease (EVD) is associated with a high mortality, especially among neonates.
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  Neonatal Ebola infection: An Interesting Issue in Pediatric Infectious Disease

  Tags Neonates, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, R-T&C
  Creator: Wiwanitkit, V.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-05-09
  Description: Letter to the editor.
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  Stillbirths and neonatal deaths surveillance during the 2014-2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak in Sierra Leone.

  Tags Neonates, Pediatrics, R-Res&Pub, R-SP
  Creator: Oduyebo, Titilope, Sarah D. Bennett, Alhaji S. Nallo, Denise J. Jamieson, Sascha Ellington, Kerry Souza, Dana Meaney-Delman, and John T. Redd.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-12-09
  Description: Stillbirth and neonatal death reporting and testing improved over time.
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  First Newborn Baby to Receive Experimental Therapies Survives Ebola Virus Disease.

  Tags Neonates, Pediatrics, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, R-T&C, Survivors, Therapeutics, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Dörnemann, Jenny, Chiara Burzio, Axelle Ronsse, Armand Sprecher, Hilde De Clerck, Michel Van Herp, Marie-Claire Kolié, Vesselina Yosifiva, Severine Caluwaerts, Anita K. McElroy, and Annick Antierens.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-01-15
  Description: A neonate born to an Ebola virus-positive woman was diagnosed with Ebola virus infection on her first day of life.
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  One month follow up of a neonate born to a mother who survived Ebola virus disease during pregnancy: a case report in the Democratic Republic of Congo

  Tags Neonates, Pediatrics, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, R-T&C, Survivors
  Creator: Baraka NK, Mumbere M, Ndombe E.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-06-18
  Description: The authors report a 1 month follow up of a neonate described as "miracle baby" because she was born Ebola virus disease-free and survived after her mother was infected with Ebola virus during the third trimester of pregnancy.

• How Specialty Certification Influences Professional Practice

  Tags Example, Nursing, R-PM, Training
  Creator: Vanairsdale, S.
  Subject: Personnel Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-03
  Description: Certified Nurses Day (March 19) honors nurses worldwide who contribute to better patient outcomes through board certification in their specialty.

  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.

• Designing a biocontainment unit to care for patients with serious communicable diseases: a consensus statement

  Tags Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-PhIn, R-Res&Pub, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Smith, P. W., A. O. Anderson, G. W. Christopher, T. J. Cieslak, G. J. Devreede, G. A. Fosdick, C. B. Greiner, J. M. Hauser, S. H. Hinrichs, K. D. Huebner, P. C. Iwen, D. R. Jourdan, M. G. Kortepeter, V. P. Landon, P. A. Lenaghan, R. E. Leopold, L. A.…
  Subject: Physical Infrastructure
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2006-12-18
  Description: In spite of great advances in medicine, serious communicable diseases are a significant threat. Hospitals must be prepared to deal with patients who are infected with pathogens introduced by a bioterrorist act (e.g., smallpox), by a global emerging…
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  Ebola Virus Persistence in Ocular Tissues and Fluids (EVICT) Study: Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction and Cataract Surgery Outcomes of Ebola Survivors in Sierra Leone

  Tags Ebola, Eye/Ocular Health, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C
  Creator: Shantha, J. G., J. G. Mattia, A. Goba, K. G. Barnes, F. K. Ebrahim, C. S. Kraft, B. R. Hayek, J. N. Hartnett, J. G. Shaffer, J. S. Schieffelin, J. D. Sandi, M. Momoh, S. Jalloh, D. S. Grant, K. Dierberg, J. Chang, S. Mishra, A. K. Chan, R. Fowler, T.…
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-04
  Description: Ebola virus disease (EVD) survivors are at risk for uveitis during convalescence. Vision loss has been observed following uveitis due to cataracts.

• Clinical Laboratory Values in Human Ebola Virus Disease Support the Relevance of the Intramuscular Ebola-Kikwit Rhesus Model.

  Tags Antibodies, Ebola, R-Res&Pub, Vaccine Study, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Reisler, R. B., C. S. Kraft, S. Bavari, and A. P. Cardile
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-04-17
  Description: "To the Editor—We read with interest the recent article in Clinical Infectious Diseases by Lanini et al, which focused on the relationship between human Ebola virus (EBOV) RNA and clinical chemistry values obtained during the West African outbreak in…

• Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Diagnostics

  Tags Diagnosis, Ebola, Identify, Marburg, R-IIT, R-Lead, R-Res&Pub, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Racsa, L. D., C. S. Kraft, G. G. Olinger, and L. E. Hensley
  Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-01-15
  Description: There are 4 families of viruses that cause viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF), including Filoviridae. Ebola virus is one virus within the family Filoviridae and the cause of the current outbreak of VHF in West Africa.