Herpes deaths: Caesareans likely source of herpes, inquest told

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Herpes deaths likely due to virus being caught during Caesareans, inquest hears

Samantha Mulcahy and Kimberley Sampson died weeks apart after being operated on by the same surgeonThe likely source of herpes infections in two mothers was during the surgical procedures to deliver their babies, an inquest has heard.

Ms Sampson died after giving birth at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, and Ms Mulcahy died at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford. He told the inquest in Maidstone there were very small differences in the viral genome which showed there had been no contamination of the samples.Infection during surgery

He said the mode of infection could have been through sweat and saliva, or the use of fingers during the surgery, but how it got into the abdomen he admitted was "pure conjecture".

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