Exactly, one broken link.
As much (justifiable) bitching has happened about what happened in New Orleans it's obvious that cooperation between organizations will not happen easily in the event that an epidemic hits the country - not efficiently anyway. Different communication systems, different terminology, different cultures... it's a big country. All it takes is one asshole or one misinformed/clueless/attitudinally-agitated person and data falls in the gaps, time is lost, populations are endangered.
Even in politically and culturally cohesive nations like Japan, Norway, Iceland, etc, there are myriad jurisdictional issues to broach. In geographically larger, more culturally diverse populations like the U.S., France, England these issues would appear (to me) to be insurmountable unless administered by a monolithic entity like the military. Poor nations? Genuine Plague.
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