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When it comes down to infectious diseases, doctors may often run into ethical issues. Epically if it is a new disease that has no cure. Trying to cure the diseases without harming the host. One example is an outbreak on small pox, a doctor gave a young child a disease that he could fight off and then followed up with a potentially lethal exposer to small pox. Trying to see if the one disease would fight off the small pox and keep the young boy safe. I didn’t find that too ethical because it was back in the early 1900’s and not many people knew much about infectious diseases so there probably was not much room for consent because the people didn’t know what was going on. 

Then when it comes to consent and communication for trails many can refer to the Tuskegee Syphilis study. This study took place with poor black people that thought they were getting treatment for the disease but, in reality were Genny pigs. Not much was known about Syphilis, so the government was seeing how much they could get away with by running weird and unethical test on these poor individuals. This incident was rationalized by the government saying that they were giving free treatment to poor black people that could not afford it as well as figured that if anyone found out during that time that not many people would care since black people were so discriminated against during that time. It was just so unethical because it was so many unknowing individuals that thought nothing was wrong but did not know that they were just being used and as a result many died from the disease. As far as being an unwillingness participate of a medical study especially syphilis could be blindness, bumps that do not go away and as an example from the Tuskegee study, DEATH!