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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

• Staff safety during emergency airway management for COVID-19 in Hong Kong

  Mots-clés 2019-nCoV, Airborne Transmission, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Droplet Transmission, Example, Occupational Exposure, Occupational Health, R-Lead, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, Staff Support, Staffing
  Créateur: Cheung, Jonathan Chun-Hei, Lap Tin Ho, Justin Vincent Cheng, Esther Yin Kwan Cham, and Koon Ngai Lam.
  Sujet: Personnel Management
  Type d'élément: Publication
  Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2020-02-24
  Description: Medical professionals caring for patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are at high risk of contracting the infection.

  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.

• Asymptomatic cases in a family cluster with SARS-CoV-2 infection

  Mots-clés 2019-nCoV, Airborne Transmission, Contact Transmission, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Droplet Transmission, Isolate, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub
  Créateur: Pan, Xingfei, Dexiong Chen, Yong Xia, Xinwei Wu, Tangsheng Li, Xueting Ou, Liyang Zhou, and Jing Liu.
  Sujet: Infection Control
  Type d'élément: Publication
  Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2020-02-19
  Description: Since December, 2019, an outbreak of pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has led to a serious epidemic in China and other countries, resulting in worldwide concern.

• Open access epidemiological data from the COVID-19 outbreak

  Mots-clés 2019-nCoV, Communications, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Inform, R-Res&Pub, Research
  Créateur: Xu, Bo, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Bo Xu, Bernardo Gutierrez, Sumiko Mekaru, Kara Sewalk, Alyssa Loskill, Lin Wang, Emily Cohn, Sarah Hill, Alexander Zarebski, Sabrina Li, Chieh-His Wu, Erin Hulland, Julia Morgan, Samuel Scarpino, John Brownstein, Oliver…
  Sujet: Research
  Type d'élément: Publication
  Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2020-02-19
  Description: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading rapidly across China, and as of Feb 16, 2020, had been reported in 26 countries globally.

• COVID-19 pneumonia: what has CT taught us?

  Mots-clés 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Lab, Laboratory, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen
  Créateur: Lee, Elaine Y. P., Ming-Yen Ng, and Pek-Lan Khong.
  Sujet: Research
  Type d'élément: Publication
  Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2020-02-24
  Description: In late December, 2019, a cluster of cases of viral pneumonia was linked to a seafood market in Wuhan (Hubei, China), and was later determined to be caused by a novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2;…

• Radiological findings from 81 patients with COVID-19 pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study

  Mots-clés 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Lab, Laboratory, R-Res&Pub
  Créateur: Shi, Heshui, Xiaoyu Han, Nanchuan Jiang, Yukun Cao, Osamah Alwalid, Jin Gu, Yanqing Fan, and Chuansheng Zheng.
  Sujet: Research
  Type d'élément: Publication
  Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2020-03-26
  Description: A cluster of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia caused by infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) were successively reported in Wuhan, China.Read a response to this article here: Huang,…

• Viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in clinical samples

  Mots-clés 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Epidemiology, Lab, Laboratory, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen
  Créateur: Pan, Yang, Daitao Zhang, Peng Yang, Leo L. M. Poon, and Quanyi Wang.
  Sujet: Research
  Type d'élément: Publication
  Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2020-02-24
  Description: An outbreak caused by a novel human coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first detected in Wuhan in December 2019, and has since spread within China and to other countries.
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  Clinical course and outcomes of critically ill patients with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a single-centered, retrospective, observational study

  Mots-clés 2019-nCoV, Clinical Care Guidelines, Coronavirus, COVID-19, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, SARS, Survivors
  Créateur: Yang, Xiaobo, Yuan Yu, Jiqian Xu, Huaqing Shu, Jia'an Xia, Hong Liu, Yongran Wu, Lu Zhang, Zhui Yu, Minghao Fang, Ting Yu, Yaxin Wang, Shangwen Pan, Xiaojing Zou, Shiying Yuan, and You Shang.
  Sujet: Treatment & Care
  Type d'élément: Publication
  Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2020-02-24
  Description: An ongoing outbreak of pneumonia associated with the severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) started in December, 2019, in Wuhan, China.
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  Monitoring for airborne respiratory viruses in a general pediatric ward in Singapore

  Mots-clés Airborne Transmission, Flu, Infection Prevention and Control, Influenza, Occupational Exposure, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen
  Créateur: Yadana, Su, Kristen Kelli Coleman, Tham Thi Nguyen, Christophe Hansen-Estruch, Shirin Kalimuddin, Koh Cheng Thoon, Jenny Guek Hong Low, and Gregory Charles Gray.
  Sujet: Research
  Type d'élément: Publication
  Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2019-12-04
  Description: There is an increasing body of evidence suggesting that transmission of respiratory viruses occurs through the inhalation of virus-laden particles.
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  Detection of infectious influenza virus in cough aerosols generated in a simulated patient examination room

  Mots-clés Airborne Transmission, Flu, Influenza, Mask, Masks, N95, Occupational Exposure, R-Res&Pub
  Créateur: Noti, John D., William G. Lindsley, Francoise M. Blachere, Gang Cao, Michael L. Kashon, Robert E. Thewlis, Cynthia M. McMillen, William P. King, Jonathan V. Szalajda, and Donald H. Beezhold.
  Sujet: Research
  Type d'élément: Publication
  Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2012-06
  Description: The potential for aerosol transmission of infectious influenza virus (ie, in healthcare facilities) is controversial. We constructed a simulated patient examination room that contained coughing and breathing manikins to determine whether coughed…
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  High humidity leads to loss of infectious influenza virus from simulated coughs

  Mots-clés Airborne Transmission, Flu, Infection Prevention and Control, Influenza, Occupational Exposure, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen
  Créateur: Noti, John D., Francoise M. Blachere, Cynthia M. McMillen, William G. Lindsley, Michael L. Kashon, Denzil R. Slaughter, and Donald H. Beezhold.
  Sujet: Research
  Type d'élément: Publication
  Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2013
  Description: The role of relative humidity in the aerosol transmission of influenza was examined in a simulated examination room containing coughing and breathing manikins.