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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: Huang, Yi, Shuqi Xiao, Donglin Song, and Zhiming Yuan.
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2022-07-05
Description: Modern human activity is profoundly changing our relationship with microorganisms with the startling rise in the rate of emerging infectious diseases. Nipah virus together with Ebola virus and SARS-CoV-2 are prominent examples. -
Creator: Hegde, S. T., H. Salje, H. M. S. Sazzad, M. J. Hossain, M. Rahman, P. Daszak, J. D. Klena, S. T. Nichol, S. P. Luby, and E. S. Gurley.
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-08-01
Description: Understanding the true burden of emergent diseases is critical for assessing public-health impact. However, surveillance often relies on hospital systems that only capture a minority of cases. We use the example of Nipah-virus infection in… -
Creator: Playford, E. G., T. Munro, S. M. Mahler, S. Elliott, M. Gerometta, K. L. Hoger, M. L. Jones, P. Griffin, K. D. Lynch, H. Carroll, D. El Saadi, M. E. Gilmour, B. Hughes, K. Hughes, E. Huang, C. de Bakker, R. Klein, M. G. Scher, I. L. Smith, L. F.…
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04
Description: The monoclonal antibody m102.4 is a potent, fully human antibody that neutralises Hendra and Nipah viruses in vitro and in vivo. We aimed to investigate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and immunogenicity of m102.4 in healthy adults. -
Creator: Michael K. Lo, Friederike Feldmann, Joy M. Gary, Robert Jordan, Roy Bannister, Jacqueline Cronin, Nishi R. Patel, John D. Klena, Stuart T. Nichol, Tomas Cihlar, Sherif R. Zaki, Heinz Feldmann, Christina F. Spiropoulou, and Emmie de Wit.
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-05-29
Description: Nipah virus is an emerging pathogen in the Paramyxoviridae family. Upon transmission of Nipah virus from its natural reservoir, Pteropus spp. fruit bats, to humans, it causes respiratory and neurological disease with a case-fatality rate about 70%. -
Creator: CDC
Subject: General
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2022-10-19
Description: Nipah virus (NiV) is a zoonotic virus, meaning that it can spread between animals and people. Fruit bats, also called flying foxes, are the animal reservoir for NiV in nature. Nipah virus is also known to cause illness in pigs and people. Infection… -
Creator: Benjamin Black
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2022-10-28
Description: Efforts to contain the spread of Ebola shouldn’t compromise healthcare for women experiencing pregnancy complications, says Benjamin Black... -
Creator: CDC
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2021-02-26
Description: Information and guidance on the treatment of Ebola patients, including therapeutics and supportive care. -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Emergency Medical Services
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2022-10-19
Description: This blog post covers considerations related to EMS.While it is unlikely that emergency medical services (EMS) personnel in the United States will encounter a person infected with Ebola virus during routine operations, an Ebola outbreak reported… -
Creator: The Medical Countermeasures Working Group of the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center’s (NETEC’s) Special Pathogens Research Network (SPRN)
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2021-02-18
Description: This article is one of a series on acute, severe diseases of humans caused by emerging viruses for which there are no or limited licensed medical countermeasures. We approached this summary on South American Hemorrhagic Fevers (SAHF) from a clinical… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2022-10-11
Description: This NETEC blog post discusses how Ebola is diagnosed in the laboratory, what to do if Ebola is suspected, assessing the risks prior to specimen collection, collecting and shipping clinical specimens, and managing and testing routine clinical…
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