Tag Archive for PRO/EDR> Herpes simplex type 1, genital – USA (02): (NYC) circumcision, RFI

PRO/EDR> Herpes simplex type 1, genital – USA (02): (NYC) circumcision, RFI

Herpes -- United StatesNew York City has begun barring mohels [persons who performs ritual Jewish circumcisions] who test positive for herpes [simplex - Mod.LL] and who may have passed the virus to an infant from sucking the blood from a circumcision wound in a controversial procedure practiced by some ultra-Orthodox Jews, the city's health department said this week[week of 27 Mar 2017] . But the legal bar appears to lack an outside enforcement mechanism. Jewish parents who wish to circumcise their Read more [...]