I have a friend from South Africa and she told me that the reason Ebola spreads so quickly among the black population of Liberia is that the family members of the deceased handle the bodies by washing them before they are laid out or whatever their tradition is.
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Yes, the relatives handle the bodies.
Apparently in some areas the families are actually bribing local medical officials to put down a different cause of death rather than Ebola so they can keep the bodies to bury them according to their traditions.