In 1983, at Fort Dettrick, they were studying Ebola in monkeys. They had a group of monkeys who they had given Ebola. They also had a control group who had not been given the virus who were in the same room but on the other side. They shared the same air. The Ebola infected monkeys were given various antibiotics and other things to see if any of it would work. None of it did and all the Ebola-infected monkeys died. Days later, the control group got sick and soon had Ebola and they died. They only thing they shared was the air they breathed. So, yeah, it got airborne.
Slyfox,
That strain may have been E. Reston.
The one that’s decimating w Africa is E. Zaire IIRC.
Different type & tranmissibility.
Monkeys tend to throw things, like feces, at each other. They also spit at each other. Technically, a virus that is transmitted by projectile spit or thrown feces is not “aerosol.”
Other studies have placed naive monkeys in the same room with Ebola monkeys, and they did not get sick.