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Get introduced to NETEC through the interactive timeline of special pathogens below.* This timeline describes some significant special pathogen events in recent history.
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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 .
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This NETEC Repository helps to provide training and educational resources to prepare for future special pathogen events.
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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:
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Creator: Anise N Happi, Chinedu A Ugwu, Christian T Happi
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-04-15
Description: This article discusses how "real-time genomic viral sequencing and surveillance of human populations represents a simple and cost-effective method of mitigating outbreaks in countries and locations that are most at risk of infectious disease… -
Creator: WHO
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2019-04-12
Description: The World Health Organization (WHO) is supporting the acceleration of new Ebola interventions in Africa, in particular the development of additional candidate vaccines. This site provides data reviewed by the WHO on the suitability of candidate… -
Creator: University of Wisconsin (UW)
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Video
Date Last Updated: 2019-04-19
Description: In this lecture Angela Hewlett, MD, MS presents a case study about caring for patients with Ebola Virus Disease at Nebraska Medical Center in 2014. Dr. Hewlett is an infectious disease specialist and associate medical director of the Nebraska… -
Creator: WHO
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-05
Description: Considerable variability exists in the level of supportive care offered to Ebola patients, and this guideline provides recommendations for the management of adults and children to provide the best possible chance for survival. -
Creator: Center for Global Development (CGD)
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-05-09
Description: This report explores the lessons of the Ebola outbreak [2014-2015] through the lens of the US and UN policymakers who were forced to construct an unprecedented response in real time. It tells the story of their choices around four major policy… -
Creator: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Subject: Research
Item Type: Video
Date Last Updated: 2019-05-29
Description: CC Grand Rounds: Clinicopathologic Grand Rounds: Clinical Cases from the NIH: Clinical Center Ebola Virus: An Update on Ecology and Molecular Correlates of Critical Illness. This lecture by Vincent Munster and Daniel S. Chertow presents a case study… -
Creator: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Subject: Research
Item Type: Webinar
Date Last Updated: 2018-11-02
Description: 13th annual Philip S. Chen, Jr., Ph.D. Distinguished Lecture on Innovation and Technology Transfer. Dr. Nancy Sullivan will present “Lightning Chess: How Host Immunity Gains a Winning Position Against Ebolavirus Infection.” Dr. Sullivan is Senior… -
Creator: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [National Institutes of Health] NIH (NIAID)
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-01-04
Description: The 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa was the largest in history, with nearly 28,700 cases and more than 11,300 deaths. As local and international healthcare workers responded to the outbreak, the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and… -
Creator: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Network for Public Health Law
Subject: General
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2019-07-18
Description: This primer provides key information on the 2018-2019 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including international response efforts, U.S. preparedness and response, an outline of the major legal challenges, and emergency legal… -
Creator: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Subject: General
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2019-02-01
Description: Memorandum Summary (CMS) Emergency Preparedness Requirements for Medicare and Medicaid Participating Providers and Suppliers: On September 16, 2016, the Emergency Preparedness Requirements for Medicare and Medicaid Participating Providers and…
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