This is one House episode that is scientifically absolutely incorrect and it really only takes some common sense, fine if you want to believe the bacterium could survive in the jar for the few hundred years and then the girl gets infected through the broken glass lacerating her skin. However the disease they prove she contracted would absolutely without any shadow of a doubt be impossible to cause the postules on her skin... The pox. There would have had to have been none and that is their mistake. For the normal vectors of this disease are infected mice and a particular mite that both bites the mice and humans thus transmits the disease. You can only get skin postules with this particular disease if you are bitten by the mites but the way the girl is exposed is the same as if I put the disease in a syringe and gave you a shot of it. You might have some postules at the site of the cut, but you would not have them all over your body. People who get this disease through the normal vector had them all over their body were bitten by the mites all over the body the reason people who have this disease do not have the postules on their feet or their hands is because the mites cannot bite through the thick skin of your feet or your hands. You see that's the reason why they know it's not smallpox smallpox is not infected this way does not work this way and you would have postules on your feet and hands. Getting the disease the way they show she gets the disease she would still have a fever she would still have all the other symptoms just absolutely no postules all over her body's those postules only correspond to bites from the mites. An absolute flaw in the plot.
Review of A Pox on Our House
