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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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  CC Grand Rounds: Response to an Outbreak: Ebola Virus Monoclonal Antibody (mAb114) Rapid Clinical Development
  

  Tags Antibodies, Ebola, Immunology, Prophylaxis, R-Res&Pub, Research, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study
  Creator: NIH
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Video
  Date Last Updated: 2019-03-19
  Description: This is a one hour lecture about the monoclonal antibody (mAb114) and ebola. It requires Flash plugin.
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  Review of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Other Emerging Health Threats

  Tags CDC, Ebola, Emergency Management, Federal, Outbreaks, Public Health, R-Gen
  Creator: U.S. Senate, Committee on Appropriations
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Video
  Date Last Updated: 2019-03-14
  Description: Agenda: Hearing to review the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other emerging health threats.

• Legal Epidemiology

  Tags Epidemiology, Legal, Public Health, R-Gen, R-T&E, Training
  Creator: ChangeLab Solutions, The Public Health Law Academy, supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2019-04-12
  Description: This field of transdisciplinary public health law can help answer many important questions, such as Why does life expectancy in two neighboring counties differ? How does raising the minimum wage affect health? Are laws regulating youth sports having…
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  Labor and Delivery Ebola Readiness and Protocols

  Tags Ebola, Example, Labor and Delivery, R-T&C
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2016
  Description: NETEC past class slides 2015-2016

  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.

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  Unique Considerations in the Management of Children with Ebola Virus Disease

  Tags Children, Ebola, Pediatrics, R-T&C, Treatment and Care, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2016
  Description: NETEC past class slides 2015-2016

• The Impact of High-Level Isolation Units Beyond High-Consequence Pathogen Preparedness

  Tags Infection Prevention and Control, Isolation/Biocontainment, Preparedness, R-PhIn, R-Res&Pub, Regional Treatment Center, Research, Special Pathogens
  Creator: Jennifer Andonian, Kelsie E. Galusha, Lisa L. Maragakis, and Brian T. Garibaldi.
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-02-19
  Description: In response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) funded the creation of 10 Regional Ebola and Other Special Pathogen Treatment Centers (RESPTCs) across the United States.

• Genomics and High-Consequence Infectious Diseases: A Scoping Review of Emerging Science and Potential Ethical Issues

  Tags Ethics, Legal, Prophylaxis, R-Res&Pub, Research, Therapeutics
  Creator: Angie M. Boyce and Brian T. Garibaldi.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-02-19
  Description: Host genomic research on high-consequence infectious diseases is a growing area, but the ethical, legal, and social implications of such findings related to potential applications of the research have not yet been identified.

• A Novel Approach to Infectious Disease Preparedness: Incorporating Investigational Therapeutics and Research Objectives into Full-Scale Exercises

  Tags Exercises and Drills, Experimental Drugs, R-Res&Pub, Research, Therapeutics
  Creator: Angela Vasa, Syra Madad, LuAnn Larson, Colleen S. Kraft, Sharon Vanairsdale, Jonathan D. Grein, Jennifer Garland, Virginia “Madison” Butterworth, and Christopher J. Kratochvil.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-02-19
  Description: The use of investigational therapeutics in the care of patients with Ebola virus disease was documented in the literature following the 2013-2016 outbreak. In order to access these types of therapeutics, facilities must have processes in place to…
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  Evaluating Promising Investigational Medical Countermeasures: Recommendations in the Absence of Guidelines

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Clinical Trial, Ethics, Infection Prevention and Control, R-T&C, Research, Research Design, Special Pathogens, Therapeutics
  Creator: NETEC SPRN Medical Countermeasures Working Group
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-02-19
  Description: Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases pose growing global public health threats. However, research on and development of medical countermeasures (MCMs) for such pathogens is limited by the sporadic and unpredictable nature of outbreaks, lack…

• The Special Pathogens Research Network: Enabling Research Readiness

  Tags R-Res&Pub, Research, Research Design, Special Pathogens
  Creator: Colleen S. Kraft, Mark G. Kortepeter, Bruce Gordon, Lauren M. Sauer, Erica S. Shenoy, Daniel P. Eiras, LuAnn Larson, Jennifer A. Garland, Aneesh K. Mehta, Kevin Barrett, Connie S. Price, Caroline Croyle, Lauren R. West, Brooke Noren, Susan Kline,…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-02-19
  Description: The 2013-2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) that originated in West Africa underscored many of the challenges to conducting clinical research during an ongoing infectious disease epidemic, both in the most affected countries of Guinea,…