A nurse has had contact with a patient who developed smallpox and became febrile after a terrorist attack. This nurse will require what treatment?
A) Watchful waiting
B) Treatment with colony-stimulating factors (CSFs)
C) Vaccination
D) Treatment with ceftriaxone
Ans: C
Feedback:
All people who have had household or face-to-face contact with a patient with small pox after the fever begins should be vaccinated within 4 days to prevent infection and death. Watchful waiting would be inappropriate and CSFs are not used for treatment. Vaccination, rather than antibiotics, is the treatment of choice.
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