On May 3, 2018, Kimberly Sampson, a 29-year-old mother who worked as a barber, went into labor. It began normally but quickly slowed down, causing her unborn child to become lodged in her pelvis, leading to an emergency Caesarean. She was injured during the operation and given a blood transfusion, according to the BBC report. Despite being in immense pain with difficulty walking, she and her newborn son were discharged. They went to her mother’s home, where Kimberly resided.
A few days later, her mother, Yvette Sampson, says her daughter was in unbearable pain and rushed by ambulance to the hospital, where she was diagnosed inaccurately with bacterial sepsis. When antibiotics failed to treat the condition, she went back under the knife as doctors performed exploratory surgery to identify the infection. In the meantime, records show she was treated with the common herpes infection drug Aciclovir.
A few days later, doctors at Kings College Hospital in London diagnosed the problem: catastrophic herpes infection. She died on May 22, 2018, while in intensive care.
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