Gawker: “Between 2000 and 2014, the Health Department found 16 confirmed cases of herpes in infant boys after circumcisions that had probably involved direct oral contact. Two of those boys died.”
“Mayor Bill de Blasio has reached an agreement with New York City’s Jewish leaders over new regulations governing Metzitzah B’Peh, a ritual in which a specially-designated rabbi sucks blood from a child’s circumcised penis, Capital New York reports.”
