Herpes -- United States
The city's health department this week [week of 6 Mar 2017] confirmed the 1st case in 2017 of a baby getting neonatal herpes [simplex, likely type 1 - Mod.LL] following a controversial Jewish circumcision process. Metzitzah b'peh was performed on the baby, which is a ritual where a mohel, or trusted religious circumciser, uses his mouth to suck blood away from the circumcision wound on the infant's penis, the department said. The health department calls metzitzah b'peh "direct orogenital
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