Herpes zoster in a husband and wife.

The wife of a 75-year-old man with zoster began to suffer from this disease some 24 days after is appeared in her husband. Although zoster is generally regarded to be an endogenously noncommunicable disease, the case reported herein suggests that the infection was exogenously communicated. The literature pointing up that zoster may possibly be acquired exogenously, particularly in immunosuppressed patients, is extensively reviewed.