A Pox on Our House

"A Pox on Our House" is the seventh episode of the seventh season of the American medical drama House. It aired on November 15, 2010. In the 18th century, the Sotos Oosterzoon, a Dutch slave ship, travels through the Bahamas. There is an outbreak of smallpox among the African captives and, fearing quarantine, they throw the slaves overboard but it is too late: the ship is fired upon and intentionally sunk, along with its crew and captives, in ord... More

"A Pox on Our House" is the seventh episode of the seventh season of the American medical drama House. It aired on November 15, 2010. In the 18th century, the Sotos Oosterzoon, a Dutch slave ship, travels through the Bahamas. There is an outbreak of smallpox among the African captives and, fearing quarantine, they throw the slaves overboard but it is too late: the ship is fired upon and intentionally sunk, along with its crew and captives, in order to contain the disease. In modern day, a group of sea-diving enthusiasts dive into the wreckage of the slave ship. A young girl brings a sealed glass jar back up from the wreck. She accidentally breaks the jar, cutting herself and exposing herself to the contents of the jar: scabs from the diseased captives. House is certain that the disease is smallpox, coming immediately to the same diagnosis as the crew. The family is quarantined, the girl and father, being especially compromised, are put in an isolation room, and the team administers...

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