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Holt (1913) reported tubercular ''mohels'' were transmitting tuberculosis to infant boys.<refname="holt1913">{{REFjournal
|last=Holt
|init=LE
|author-link=L. Emmett Holt
|title=Tuberculosis acquired through ritual circumcision
|journal=JAMA
|pages=516-517
|accessdate=2019-10-25
}}</ref> The [https://www.cdc.gov/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] issued a warning in 2012 about the health implications of this practice, citing 11 cases of neonatal HSV and two recorded [[fatalities]].<ref>{{REFjournal
|url=http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6122a2.htm
|title=Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Infection Following Jewish Ritual Circumcisions that Included Direct Orogenital Suction — New York City, 2000–2011
}}</ref>
A 2013 review of cases of neonatal [[Herpes]] infections in [[Israel ]] identified ritual circumcision as the source of HSV-1 transmission in 31.8% of the cases.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Koren
|first=Amir
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==Pain==
[[EMLA]] cream topical anesthetic may be purchased without a prescription. [[EMLA]] is almost completely ineffective against the [[pain]] of circumcision,<ref name="lander1997">{{LanderJ etal 1997}}</ref> however it reputedly is popular with ''mohelim''.
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Brit Milah]]
* [[Metzitzah b'peh]]
* [[Yitzhok Fischer]]
{{REF}}
[[Category:Jewish]]
[[Category:Mohel]]