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==Risks== | ==Risks== | ||
Medical science has identified several risks associated with Brit Milah. | Medical science has identified several risks associated with Brit Milah. Brit Milah is a surgical operation and, like all surgical operations, has the risks of [[infection]], [[bleeding]], and a surgical misadventure, up to and including loss of the [[penis]] and [[death]]. | ||
Professor [[L. Emmett Holt]] (1913) reported 41 cases of tuberculosis in ritually circumcised boys who had been infected by tubercular [[Mohel| mohels]], of whom 16 had died at the time of writing.<ref>{{REFjournal | Professor [[L. Emmett Holt]] (1913) reported 41 cases of tuberculosis in ritually circumcised boys who had been infected by tubercular [[Mohel| mohels]], of whom 16 had died at the time of writing.<ref>{{REFjournal | ||
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|url=http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/adc.2008.144063v1 | |url=http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/adc.2008.144063v1 | ||
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