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More recently reports of infant boys being infected with herpes simplex virus have come from New York and Israel.
Cases of infection of baby boys with herpes simplex have been reported in New York. Rubin & Lanzkowsky (2000) reported two cases of cutaneous herpes simplex infection after ritual circumcision.<ref name="rubin2000">{{REFjournal |last=Rubin |first= |init=LG |author-link= |last2=Lanzkowsky |first2=P |init2= |author2-link= |etal=no |title=Cutaneous neonatal herpes simplex infection associated with ritual circumcision |trans-title= |language= |journal=Pediatr Infect Dis J |location= |date=2000-03 |volume=19 |issue=3 |article= |page= |pages=266-8 |url=https://journals.lww.com/pidj/fulltext/2000/03000/cutaneous_neonatal_herpes_simplex_infection.25.aspx |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=10749479 |pubmedCID= |DOI= 10.1097/00006454-200003000-00025 |accessdate=2022-02-13}}</ref> One death and brain damage in another has occurred.<ref name="frieden2005">{{REFdocument
|title=An open letter to the Jewish Community from the New York City Health Commissioner
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061214110055/http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/std/std-bris-commishletter.pdf