The nurse explains to the parents that their child is in the prodromal stage of varicella. What does this mean?
a. The child is now immune to varicella.
b. The child has varicella but has not yet broken out.
c. The child is infected with varicella but is not contagious.
d. The child does not have varicella but has been exposed to it.
ANS: B
The prodromal stage is the initial stage of the communicable disease in which the child is infected and contagious but does not yet have outward signs of the disease.
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