Ebola victims are being left on Sierra Leone's streets because of a strike by burial teams, according to media in the country.
The workers, who arguably have one of the world's most dangerous jobs, complain they have not been paid.
The situation is "very embarrassing", said health ministry spokesman Sidie Yahya Tunis.
He promised money was available for the workers.
"We haven't been paid for two weeks, so we need our money right now," said one angry worker.
"We don't even care if dead bodies have been littered all over the city - all we want is our money. We've been stigmatised in our communities, so let the government pay us our money."
Sky's Alex Crawford saw first-hand the extreme precautions burial teams in the region have to take as they retrieve corpses.
She said teams in neighbouring Liberia - the worst affected country with more than 2,000 deaths - were overwhelmed, with "not enough hours in the day for them to track down the dead".
Any temporary halt in collection only adds to the risk of further infection because the virus can stay on the bodies, said Sky's Health Correspondent Thomas Moore.
Six hundred people have died from the virus in Sierra Leone, according to the World Health Organisation, and more than 3,400 in total.
The deadly virus has swept through West African countries Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.
A Spanish nurse continues to be treated in a Madrid hospital after becoming the first person outside Africa to contract ebola.
Teresa Romero, 40, told El Mundo she had no idea how she contracted the virus and that she followed all precautions.
Another three people are also quarantined at the hospital, including the woman's husband - who has made a video appeal for authorities not to destroy the couple's dog.
Some 50 other people - who either had contact with Mrs Romero or treated one of the two missionaries who died at the hospital - are also being monitored.
In Britain, David Cameron is to chair a meeting of the COBRA emergency committee as four hospitals stand by to handle any UK cases.
The UN meanwhile has said one of its medical officials in Liberia has tested positive for ebola and is receiving treatment.
The unnamed official is the second member of their mission to contract the virus - the other died on 25 September.
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