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And I assume you mean all countries. Globally. Even those where the government is, ahh, less effective.

And the vaccination is for all residents, including everyone in slums, shanty-towns, or some other form of less-well recognized housing. And irrespective of immigration status or availability of government-sanctioned ID documents,...

Not sure how we plan on quarantining the slums, though... It is hard enough for the US homeless population.

I have a strong background in public health, and am in general sympathetic to your position. I'd like to see good healthcare universally available, we (the human race) certainly can afford it, and it is hard for me to understand how we think we cannot afford it when you consider the potential costs of say avian influenza crossing to humans in some Cairo slum.

My point is only, and as you said, to remind us that this is a global problem. If we don't solve it for society's dispossessed, we haven't solved it.