The nurse is caring for patient diagnosed with smallpox. Currently the lesions are scabbed throughout his body. The nurse realizes this patient would be considered:
1. Infectious.
2. Clear of the infection.
3. Incubating until the second crop of lesions appears.
4. A carrier but unable to transmit the infection to others.
Infectious.
Rationale: The smallpox virus can be recovered from scabs, so the patient should be isolated and considered infectious until all the scabs separate. Smallpox has a single crop of lesions.
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