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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.