Angry crowd sets Ebola hospital tents on fire in DR Congo

[haele]

10. No, it's unfortunately a religious practice conflict.

Some sects of various offshoots of the major religions and some tribal religions believe the body of the recently deceased is required to go through certain rituals or be collected for burial immediately or the family or community risks hauntings, curses, attracting bad spirits (other than the deceased) or general bad luck.
They consider it equally important that the body be handled properly as it is to keep a disease from rampaging through the community.
And you can't really convince them otherwise. Especially if they don't want to believe it's Ebola.

On edit - it seems the young man was a popular footballer who played on several regional teams for the national league.
The DRC National Football team is planning on participating in the World Cup. That's a significant risk.