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'''Penile herpes simplex virus type 1 infection (after Jewish ritual circumcision)''' is caused by the practice of ''meẓiẓah b'peh'' by ''mohelim'' in which the newly circumcised penis of the infant boy is taken into the mouth of the attending ''[[mohel]]'' and sucked.
Holt (1913) showed the practice to cause infection with tuberculosis more than one hundred years ago.<ref name="holt1913">{{REFjournal
|last=Holt
|init=LE
|author-link=L. Emmett Holt
|title=Tuberculosis acquired through ritual circumcision
|journal=JAMA
|date=1913-07-12
|volume=61
|issue=2
|pages=99-102
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/holt1/
|DOI=10.1001/jama.1913.0435002002501
|accessdate=2022-02-12
}}</ref>
More recently reports of infant boys being infected with herpes simplex virus have come from Israel and New York.
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Abrahamic covenant]]
* [[Brit Milah]]
* [[Metzitzah b'peh]]
{{REF}}
[[Category:Circumcision complication]]
[[Category:Israel]]
[[Category:Jewish]]
[[Category:Mohel]]
[[Category:Religion]]
Holt (1913) showed the practice to cause infection with tuberculosis more than one hundred years ago.<ref name="holt1913">{{REFjournal
|last=Holt
|init=LE
|author-link=L. Emmett Holt
|title=Tuberculosis acquired through ritual circumcision
|journal=JAMA
|date=1913-07-12
|volume=61
|issue=2
|pages=99-102
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/holt1/
|DOI=10.1001/jama.1913.0435002002501
|accessdate=2022-02-12
}}</ref>
More recently reports of infant boys being infected with herpes simplex virus have come from Israel and New York.
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Abrahamic covenant]]
* [[Brit Milah]]
* [[Metzitzah b'peh]]
{{REF}}
[[Category:Circumcision complication]]
[[Category:Israel]]
[[Category:Jewish]]
[[Category:Mohel]]
[[Category:Religion]]