For real. If you have spent your whole life being taught the evil spirit theory of disease and have a life time of evidence to back the theory up it's kind of hard to jump on a scientific theory of disease that you have no evidence or context to support. Government doesn't do a whole hell of a lot for many of these people aside from exploit or ignore them, it's easy to see how it would be easy to dismiss the party line. Pile on the fact that violating all their traditional burial customs (which if you are superstitious is probably going to be something you super superstitious about) is ultimately being pushed by White people who have a pretty grim track record of being brutally exploitative to the people of Africa.
I am obviously aware of the cultural background and if anything am pushing for something like martial law. Sometimes culture has to be thrown out the window. Mutating diseases present a danger to the entire world. You're not gonna. Time to force them. It's sad, and shitty, but it should have happened the moment ebola hit urban areas.It's no mean feat to at once convince these people such things exist and these things are making them sick and they should expend with a lifetimes worth of learning about their religions and beliefs and burn bodies as well as convincing them that certain hygiene steps would help.