by caesarean section to her daughter injuly 2018. the 32 year old again quickly deteriorated, baffling medics, and died eight days after giving birth. i can remember right at the very end, even then they said they were basically at a loss, they didn t know what was wrong. the hospital said samantha too had died of herpes, two rare deaths but seemingly no link. we were told there was no connection at all with the deaths. but that turned out not to be the case. the trust quickly discovered the same surgeon had operated on both women. documents we ve seen show that just two weeks after the second death, they were told, it does look like surgical contamination . public health england concluded the strain of the virus the women died of was rare and maybe epidemiologically linked. these are certainly very unusual cases. very rare indeed. we shared the documents with peter greenhouse,
they didn t know what was wrong. the hospital said samantha too had died of herpes, two rare deaths but seemingly no link. we were told there was no connection at all with the deaths. but that turned out not to be the case. the trust quickly discovered the same surgeon had operated on both women. documents we ve seen show that just two weeks after the second death, they were told it does look like surgical contamination . public health england concluded the strain of the virus the women died of was rare and maybe epidemiologically linked. these are certainly very unusual cases. very rare indeed. we shared the documents with peter greenhouse, a world renowned expert on herpes infection. the only common source would be the surgeon who performed the operations, but if you think of the speed at which these women became unwell and the location of their infection, which was inside the abdomen, it does seem very much more likely and more biologically plausible that was the original
days after giving birth. i can remember right at the very end, even then they said they were basically at a loss, they didn t know what was wrong. the hospital said samantha too had died of herpes, two rare deaths but seemingly no link. we were told there was no connection at all with the deaths. but that turned out not to be the case. the trust quickly discovered the same surgeon had operated on both women. documents we ve seen show that just two weeks after the second death, they were told it does look like surgical contamination . public health england concluded the strain of the virus the women died of was rare and maybe epidemiologically linked. these are certainly very unusual cases. very rare indeed. we shared the documents with peter greenhouse, a world renowned expert on herpes infection. the only common source would be the surgeon who performed the operations, but if you think of the speed at which these women became
unwell and the location of their infection, which was inside the abdomen, it does seem very much more likely and more biologically plausible that was the original site of the infection. peter greenhouse says the strongest likelihood is that the surgeon had a herpetic whitlow, a small, often unnoticeable sore on his finger and that he unwittingly shared the herpes virus. even though he was wearing surgical gloves, a study of caesarean sections found the gloves tear in more than 50% of operations, potentially allowing the virus to infect the women. we showed both families the expert s opinion. that was the original site of the infection. | does that make sense? yeah. i feel sick listening to that. it makes me think even more that there s a problem.