“The families look very close in those pictures; they do not strike me as the kind of people who would be flippant about instructions to not be intimate before the required wait period is over.”
Looks are very often deceiving. You are essentially trusting the whole village to the sex drive of one person.
Read the Hot Zone. One man gave Marburg to every prostitute in a single village.
Don’t assume that men only have sex with their wives. They often have sex with themselves, other women and even other men.
Moreover, most of the people in those countries are illiterate. They also have little regard for Western medicine. Plus they now have certificates declaring them ‘cured’. So, if they’re indeed ‘cured’, why the need to abstain for 7+ weeks?
It’s a recipe for disaster.
Heartbreaking.
Small businessmen will be bankrupted even if they manage to avoid having this strike someone they know.