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Explores how infectious diseases pose a number of distinctive ethical, legal, and human rights issues. Reviews international human rights, US constitutional and legal principles, and ethical theories of relevance to evaluating medical, public health, and social responses to infectious diseases. Examines features of infectious diseases that raise distinctive normative issues including modes of transmission, drug-resistance, potential for natural and vaccine-induced immunity, and possibility of global eradication for some diseases. Discusses issues including pandemic preparedness and response, duties to care for people with infectious diseases, uses of liberty-limiting and privacy infringing control measures, criminalization, discrimination and stigma, antibiotic stewardship, vaccine mandates and refusal, duties to avoid transmitting infectious diseases, and global eradication of infectious diseases.