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One of the risks of [[circumcision]] in either sex, at any age, is '''death'''.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://intactamerica.org/circumcision-gone-wrong/ |title=Circumcision Gone Wrong: Damage, Deformity, Death |last=Garrett |first=Connor |init= |author-link=Connor Judson Garrett |publisher=Intact America |date=2023-11-04 |accessdate=2024-06-02}}</ref> Deaths from [[circumcision]] appear to be grossly underreported. It is embarrassing to the [[circumcision industry]] when a boy dies from a surgical [[amputation]] that should not have been done at all. It is difficult to obtain accurate estimates of the deaths caused by circumcision because hospitals are not required to release this data, doctors often purposefully attribute the death to a secondary cause, such as "hemorrhaging," or "septic [[shock]]," and oftentimes, parents who are complicit agree to keep silent about the surrounding of their child's death.
Holt (1913) reported deaths of boys from tuberculosis transmitted by tubercular ''mohelim'' during ritual non-therapeutic circumcision.<ref>{{REFjournal
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Baker (1979) estimated 229 deaths per year in the [[United States ]] caused by non-therapeutic male infant circumcision.<ref name="baker1979">{{REFjournal
|last=Baker
|first=Robert Leon
}}</ref>
Bollinger (2010} estimated approximately 117 neonatal circumcision-related deaths occur annually in the [[United States]], about one out of every 77 male neonatal deaths, more than suffocation, auto accidents, or even [[SIDS]].<ref name="bollinger2010">{{BollingerD 2010}}</ref>
==Infant mortality==
The [[United States]], in addition to having the world's highest incidence of non-therapeutic, non-religious [[circumcision]], also has the highest rate of infant mortality. The relationship is unclear. A correlation exists but does not prove cause and effect.<ref>{{REFjournal
|accessdate= 2022-09-12
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==Video==
===This should be a crime.===
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* [[Anonymous case reports]]
|date=2016
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* {{REFweb
|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-23378694
|title=When circumcision can mean death in South Africa
|last=Nomsa
|first=Maseko
|init=
|publisher=BBC
|date=2013-07-19
|accessdate=2024-05
}}