Woman dies suddenly during their honeymoon

                        

A groom has been left heartbroken after his new wife died suddenly during their honeymoon in Fiji.

Kelly Clarke, 24, fell ill on Wednesday but dismissed it as a stomach bug and went to bed to sleep it off.

When she rapidly declined the next day she was rushed to hospital.

After initially being diagnosed with typhoid fever, Kelly went into septic shock and died in hospital on Friday night while waiting for a medevac team to arrive.

Her heartbroken husband Chase says he was able to speak to her one last time before she died.

He was at the couple’s hotel collecting their belongings when doctors placed her in an induced coma.

“I spoke to her and she told me she was scared she was going to die,” Chase told Nine News .

“I just told her I love her, ‘we’re going to get out of here, everything’s going to be ok’.

“She’d gone into septic shock, she was panting heavily, she could barely speak to me.”

Chase said the family have been told Kelly, a post-operative nurse at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, died from severe bilateral pneumonia.

Experts suspect Kelly, who had contracted the chronic immune disorder lupus earlier this year, would most likely have been treated with steroids which damages the immune system further and increases the risk of infection.

Infectious diseases expert at Sydney University Robert Booy said: “Lupus can weaken the lungs directly, so they may have already been damaged, increasing the risk of pneumonia and infections.”

Chase and Kelly, from New South Wales, Australia, married in April this year and were planning their honeymoon for later in the year.

Chase told The Daily Telegraph :