UK doctor did not think new mother who later died had herpes, inquest hears

Kimberly Sampson with her daughter a few years before she died after giving birth to a son. Photograph: Family handout/PA

A doctor who helped to deliver the baby of a woman who died from herpes after potentially being infected by a surgeon said that it “did not cross his mind” that the new mother had the infection.

In 2018, 29-year-old Kimberly Sampson became seriously ill after her baby was delivered at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother hospital, Margate. She was transferred to King’s College hospital in London where she was diagnosed with a herpes infection and died on 22 May 2018.