Medical advice on how new mothers with sepsis should be treated is to change after two women died of a herpes infection.
Advice on how new mothers with sepsis should be treated is to change after two women died of a herpes infection.
The East Kent Hospitals Trust said it had not been possible to identify the source of either infection. Edward Morris, President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, which set standards in maternity care, said routine investigation and management of maternal sepsis "should always consider viral sources of infection, and appropriate changes should be instituted to support earlier diagnosis and treatment".
Herpes infections are common with almost 70% of adults having one of the two types of the virus by the time they are 25 A spokesman for the coroner's service in Kent said they were now reviewing information provided by BBC News that was not available when a decision not to hold an inquest was made. It said it would "consider whether the duty to investigate… is triggered".
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