NETEC News & Blog
EMS Strategies for Ebola
EMS professionals should follow an identify, isolate, and inform strategy, and implement a hierarchy of controls when responding to and transporting patients to prevent transmission of infectious diseases like Ebola.
Situation Report: International Efforts to Control the Ebola Outbreak
Global health agencies are supporting the response to control and contain the spread of Ebola in Uganda, and in the U.S. health care agencies prepare.
Laboratory Testing for Ebola
A guide for laboratories that may encounter a patient under investigation (PUI) for a suspected Ebolavirus, including risk assessment, specimen collection and shipping, and how to manage routine clinical specimens.
How Frontline Health Care Workers Can Prepare for an Ebola Outbreak
Summary guidance for frontline health care workers to safely and effectively care for patients infected with Ebola.
Situation Report: Global Response to the Ebola Outbreak
As cases of Ebola in Uganda rise, an international effort is underway to find a vaccine, and health care workers are encouraged to remain vigilant.
PRESS RELEASE: NETEC advises healthcare workers to remain vigilant with travel screening protocol and review their special pathogens preparedness plans as Ebola outbreak in Uganda claims more than 20 lives
NETEC responds to the outbreak of Sudan ebolavirus in Uganda with advice for health care agencies.
Mpox: Updates in Evaluation and Management
Three experts in clinical care for patients with infectious diseases share up-to-date research and practices for managing mpox.
Situation Report: Ebola Outbreak in Uganda Spreads to Three Districts
Public health authorities continue to investigate the scope of the Sudan ebolavirus outbreak in Uganda. The current caseload is 36, with 23 deaths.
Situation Report: Uganda Confirmed an Outbreak of a Rare Species of Ebola
On September 20, 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Ugandan health authorities declared an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD), caused by the Sudan ebolavirus, in Uganda's central Mubende district.
Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers and PPE
On a recent episode of Transmission Interrupted, NETEC hosts Jill Morgan and Trish Tennill go back to the basics of viral hemorrhagic fevers and personal protective equipment (PPE).