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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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  How Frontline Health Care Workers Can Prepare for an Ebola Outbreak

  Tags Blog, Ebola, Frontline Facility, Identify, Inform, Isolate, Outbreaks, R-IPC, Waste Management
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2022-10-07
  Description: This NETEC blog post discusses the Sudan ebolavirus outbreak in Uganda, differences and similarities among ebolavirus Species, the Identify, Isolate, and Inform process, and infection control and waste management.
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  Therapeutics for Ebola virus disease

  Tags Ebola, R-T&C, Therapeutics, Treatment and Care
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2022-08-19
  Description: The WHO Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Clinical management: living guidance contains the Organization’s most up-to-date recommendations for the clinical management of people with EVD.
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  Effects of therapies for Ebola virus disease: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

  Tags Ebola, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: Ya Gao, Yunli Zhao, Gordon Guyatt, Robert Fowler, Richard Kojan, Long Ge, Jinhui Tian, Collaborators; Qiukui Hao
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2022-07-05
  Description: Specific treatments targeting Ebola virus are crucial in managing Ebola virus disease. To support the development of clinical practice guidelines on medications for Ebola virus disease, we aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of therapies for…
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  Mpox and Pediatrics: What Clinicians Need to Know

  Tags Mpox, Pediatrics, Treatment and Care
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2022-08-23
  Description: As the 2022 global mpox outbreak continues to spread in the U.S. and abroad, pediatricians should consider how mpox may affect their patients. This blog post provides information related to mpox and pediatrics.

• Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program)

  Tags Laboratory, Protocol, R-Lab, R-Res&Pub, Research, Training
  Creator: CITI Program
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2022
  Description: The Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program) is dedicated to serving the training needs of colleges and universities, healthcare institutions, technology and research organizations, and governmental agencies, as they foster…

• CDC Laboratory Training

  Tags Biosafety, Laboratory, Occupational Health, R-Lab, R-Res&Pub, Training
  Creator: CDC
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2022-06-29
  Description: This page includes a selection of different laboratory trainings.

• CDC Laboratories

  Tags Biosafety, CDC, Laboratory, Occupational Health, R-Lab, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: CDC
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2022-10-26
  Description: CDC has more than 1700 scientists, working in more than 200 cutting-edge laboratories across the U.S. from Atlanta to Spokane, to Ft Collins, to Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Morgantown, Anchorage, and San Juan. While CDC’s laboratories are diverse in…

• ASHP Guidelines for the Management of Investigational Drug Products

  Tags R-Res&Pub, Research, Research Design, Therapeutics
  Creator: Editor Bruce Hawkins
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019
  Description: The purpose of these guidelines is to describe a standardized approach for the management of investigational drug products by the clinical research pharmacy, pharmaceutical industry, and cooperative and research network groups.

• Frequently Asked Questions – Statement of Investigator (Form FDA 1572)

  Tags Institutional Review Board (IRB), R-Res&Pub, Research, Research Design
  Creator: FDA
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2010-06
  Description: Guidance for Sponsors, Clinical Investigators, and IRBs. Information for investigational new drugs (IND).
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  Monkeypox Specimen Collection: Breaking the Swab Shaft
  

  Tags Just in Time training (JIT), Laboratory, Mpox, R-Lab, Skills Video, Specimen Collection, Specimen Handling
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Video
  Date Last Updated: 2022-07-22
  Description: This video is a brief demonstration of how to break a monkeypox specimen collection swab's shaft in a safe manner.