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Maternity hospitals gather together newborn infants into a hospital nursery where they are cared for, which increases the risk of passing infection from one to the others. If an infant is compromised by an open surgical wound, then that infant is more likely to become at greater risk of becoming infected. Male infants in America, where non-therapeutic infant circumcision is remains popular, are more likely to be become infected than female infants. ''Staphylococcus aureus '' is a common infection and is worse when a methicillin resistant strain ([https://www.cdc.gov/mrsa/index.html MRSA]) is involved. Thompson et al. (1966) reported a higher risk of ''staphylococcus '' infection in newborn circumcised males.<ref name="thompson1966">{{REFjournal
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Van Howe & Robson (2007) examined reports of three outbreaks of community-associated methicillin-resistant ''Staphylococcus aureus'' (CA-MRSA) in American maternity hospital nurseries. They found that boys, with 73 percent of the cases, are at greater risk due to the prevalence of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]]. The authors, observed that CA-MRSA can progress to bacteremia, osteomyelitis, pyelonephritis, perinephric abscess, lung abscess, empyema, [[shock]], and [[death]]. They suggested minimizing newborn circumcisions to reduce the risk of infection.<ref name="vanhowe2007">{{REFjournal
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|title=The Possible Role of Circumcision in Newborn Outbreaks of Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant ''Staphylococcal aureus''
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|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert-Van-Howe/publication/6354204_The_Possible_Role_of_Circumcision_in_Newborn_Outbreaks_of_Community-Associated_Methicillin-Resistant_Staphylococcus_aureus/links/004635367c240d30cf000000/The-Possible-Role-of-Circumcision-in-Newborn-Outbreaks-of-Community-Associated-Methicillin-Resistant-Staphylococcus-aureus.pdf
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Infant non-therapeutic circumcisions do not cure disease and do not contribute to health. When infection occurs after a [[circumcision]] performed by a physician, then it may be considered to be [[iatrogenic]] as the infection would not have occurred if the circumcision had not been performed.