It's not even "our rep" that's the issue. One or two people die of a horrific disease, western doctors in spacesuits show up and spray the village and tell the

It's not even "our rep" that's the issue. One or two people die of a horrific disease, western doctors in spacesuits show up and spray the village and tell the locals to ignore their traditional burial rituals. Then loads more people get sick. To a populace who don't understand what is happening and whose education is not that advanced it's easy to see how they could assume the westerners caused the disease to spread.