Monkeypox virus infection in a 23-year-old woman with a genital rash and global skin lesions: evidence for spouse-to-spouse transmission.

We report one case in China of a couple simultaneously infected with the monkeypox. Both spouses developed genital skin lesions successively and the female partner had widespread skin lesions all over her body, while the male partner is HIV-positive, had a history of homosexual behavior before the onset of symptoms.