Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the likelihood of the aerosol transmission of the ebola virus.

Ebola is spread through body fluid secretions directly and as stated in the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens guidance, United Kingdom experts agree there is no circumstantial or epidemiological evidence of an aerosol transmission risk.

The Public Health England document Guidance Ebola: origins, reservoirs, transmission, guidelines clarifies this in more detail:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ebola-origins-reservoirs-transmission-and-guidelines