Guidance

Ebola: environmental cleaning guidance for potential contamination

Guidelines for people carrying out cleaning procedures associated with suspected and confirmed cases of Ebola (excluding healthcare settings).

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 13 August 2014
• Last updated: 13 February 2015
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  1. 13 February 2015

     Updated guidance.

  2. 22 December 2014

     Updated version (22 December v5), local health protection team section added.

  3. 2 December 2014

     Updated guidance (2 December, v4): chlorine concentrations for cleaning have been corrected.

  4. 20 November 2014

     Updated guidance with details on disposal of waste water from cases.

  5. 23 October 2014

     Updated guidance available.

  6. 16 September 2014

     PDF updated.

  7. 13 August 2014

     First published.

This publication was withdrawn on 21 June 2018

This document was withdrawn in June 2018. For current advice on Ebola, see the Ebola collection.

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[Withdrawn] Environmental cleaning guidance for potential Ebola contamination (excluding healthcare settings)

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Details

This guidance was written during the 2014 to 2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

This document provides guidance on:

• precautions to be taken by people carrying out cleaning procedures associated with suspected and confirmed cases of Ebola
• actions to take after the suspected case of Ebola has been assessed