This episode prominently features medical student Martha Masters, whose research into the shipwreck's history—specifically the death of a ship's cat—leads to the correct diagnosis.
Dr. House clashes with the CDC director, Dr. Dave Broda, over the diagnosis. House eventually risks his life by entering the quarantine zone to prove the illness is actually Rickettsialpox , a treatable bacterial infection, rather than the deadly smallpox virus. Character Arcs House - A Pox on Our...
A teenage girl is admitted to Princeton-Plainsboro after a 200-year-old glass jar from a shipwreck shatters in her hand. When she begins showing symptoms of smallpox , a disease eradicated decades ago, the hospital is put under lockdown by the CDC. Dave Broda, over the diagnosis
While the hospital is in lockdown, Wilson and Sam treat a young chemotherapy patient, a situation that prompts them to re-examine the future of their own relationship. When she begins showing symptoms of smallpox ,