II. WIVES INFECTED BY HUSBANDS EMPLOYED 
IN MICROBIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES 
Cholera : During a severe and fatal infection of her husband, the 
wife washed his clothes at home, including bed clothes. After a 
severe diarrhea, she also died five days later (7b). 
Bolivian hemorrhagic fever (Machupo) : Wife, after visiting her 
husband in the hospital. "Direct person-to-person spread has not 
been reported in any of the other hemorrhagic fevers." (20) 
Marburg disease : Wife, by sexual intercourse with her husband, 
11 weeks after his recovery from a laboratory-acquired infection 
( 21 ). 
There have been no other cases in family contacts (22). 
Anthrax : Cutaneous facial lesion in a wife who never visited the 
laboratory in which her husband worked, during a time when there 
were many cutaneous cases. Her husband was not infected. Case 24 
(23). 
Psittacosis : Wife, secretary in a building separated from the 
laboratory in which her husband was employed, hospitalized on the 
fifth day after her husband was released from the hospital after 
a ten-day illness with psittacosis (24). 
Q fever : In a wife whose husband was believed not to have taken the 
required shower before going home (24,25). 
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