Is this historically correct that Theodore Herzl father of Zionism infected his wife with gonorrhea ?

One of Israel's most celebrated intellectuals and biographers of Herzl, Amos Elon, pointed that Herzl infected his wife with Gonorrhoea which he contracted in 1880.
Source: Elon, Amos (1975) Herzl. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. p.49.
Amos Elon in the mid-1980s.