The school nurse who works in an area with poor vaccination compliance learns a child has developed measles after being in class for the past week. Twenty other children in the class have not received the measles vaccine. The nurse anticipates how many of these children will contract measles?

18. Measles is highly contagious: roughly 90% of individuals who come in contact with an infected patient contract the virus. Therefore, if 20 unvaccinated children come in close contact with the infected child, 18 of them will likely develop the disease.

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