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== The United States of America ==
According to Wallerstein, the rate of male circumcision in the U.S. may have been around 10% in 1880, when it was just beginning to become legitimized as a medical procedure, and grew in popularity steadily until it's peak in the 1980's.<ref>Wallerstein, Edward. Circumcision: An American Health Fallacy. Springer, New York. 1980. pp. 217</ref> According to the American Medical Association's most recent major document on medical circumcision, the "Report 10 of the Council on Scientific Affairs", created by their "Council on Science and Public Health" in 1999, the prevalence of circumcision in the United States increased from about 30% in the 1930s to nearly 80% by the early 1970s".<ref>"Report 10 of the Council on Scientific Affairs (I-99): Neonatal Circumcision". American Medical Association Official Website. http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/no-index/about-ama/13585.shtml. Accessed May 4, 2011.</ref> Current reports estimate the rate of adult circumcised American men at approximately 80%.<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Rabin | first=Roni Caryn | coauthors= | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/health/research/17circ.html | title=Steep Drop Seen in Circumcisions in U.S. | publisher= | work=The New York Times | quote=Some 80 percent of American men are circumcised, one of the highest rates in the developed world. | date=2010-08-16 | accessdate=2011-09-24
}}</ref>
One year earlier, at the AIDS 2010 Vienna conference, CDC spokesman Charbel El Bcheraoui delivered a presentation on circumcision complications,<!-- <ref>{{REFcontribution
| contribution=Rates of selected neonatal male circumcision-associated severe adverse events in the United States, 2007-2009 | quote= | url=http://pag.aids2010.org/Abstracts.aspx?SID=438&AID=4529 | title=XVIII International AIDS Conference July 18-23 2010 Vienna Austria | author=Charbel El Bcheraoui; J. Greenspan, K. Kretsinger, R. Chen | publisher=International AIDS Society | place=Vienna, Austria | pages= | date=2010-07-18 | accessdate=2011-09-24
}}</ref>--> in which a study noting a steep drop in the neo-natal circumcision from 56% to 33% was presented.<!-- <ref>{{REFcontribution
| contribution=US newborn male circumcision rate dropped sharply in from 2006 to 2009 | quote=Circumcision rates fell from 56% in 2006 to 33% in 2009. | url=http://www.davidwilton.com/files/2010-08-05_zoler.pdf | title=AIDS 2010, Vienna, Austria | author=Mitchel L. Zoler | publisher=Elsevier Global Medical News | place=Vienna, Austria | pages= | date=2010-08-05 | accessdate=
}}</ref>--> This is a sharp contrast from the 55% figure the CDC is currently releasing. The CDC disowns the 33% figure,<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Rabin | first=Roni Caryn | coauthors= | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/health/research/17circ.html | title=Rabin | publisher= | work=The New York Times | quote=C.D.C. was not involved in the collection of the data that was cited, nor has C.D.C. undertaken any review of this particular data for the purpose of calculating rates... | date=2010-08-16 | accessdate=2011-09-24
}}</ref> asserting that it was based on calculations by SDI Health, a company in Plymouth Meeting, PA that analyzes health care data, and was not definitive. Andrew Kress, the chief executive of SDI Health, cautioned that the data had not yet been published and was still being analyzed.<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Rabin | first=Roni Caryn | coauthors= | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/health/research/17circ.html | title=Steep Drop Seen in Circumcisions in U.S. | publisher= | work=The New York Times | quote=Andrew Kress, the chief executive of SDI Health, cautioned that the data had not yet been published and was still being analyzed... | date=2010-08-16 | accessdate=2011-09-24
}}</ref></ref> Both SDI and the CDC confirmed that the trend had been toward fewer circumcisions each year, adding that measuring the circumcision rate was not the purpose of the study, which was designed to measure the rate of complications from the procedure.<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Rabin | first=Roni Caryn | coauthors= | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/health/research/17circ.html | title=Steep Drop Seen in Circumcisions in U.S. | publisher= | work=The New York Times | quote=What we can tell you is that male infant circumcision rates have declined somewhat in this decade... | date=2010-08-16 | accessdate=2011-09-24
}}</ref>