Discussion: Week 8 There are numerous ethical issues in epidemiology, from deciding who should receive a vaccine when there is a shortage to the ethical rules researchers should follow in studying disease patterns and trends. As your text emphasizes, all people are interconnected and transmission of disease is one way this is clearly seen. Unfortunately, many diseases today still have certain stigmas attached to them. Recently, in the ebola outbreak in West Africa of 2014, persons who were exposed to the disease were not allowed into certain public places or were shunned from villages
Discussion: Week 8 There are numerous ethical issues in epidemiology, from deciding who should receive a vaccine when there is a shortage to the ethical rules researchers should follow in studying disease patterns and trends. As your text emphasizes, all…