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Dr. Arthur Gumer of Northside Hospital in Atlanta says circumcision has been thought to provide "protection against infectious diseases later in life which would include either sexually transmitted diseases or urinary tract infections."
Up to 96 percent of the babies in the United States and Canada receive no anesthesia when they are circumcised, according to a report from the {{UNI|University of Alberta |UAlberta}} in Edmonton.
One of the reasons anesthesia is not used, the study found, is the belief that infants feel little or no pain from the procedure. It has also been argued that injecting anesthesia can be as painful as circumcision itself, and that infants don't remember the procedure, anyway.