NY Board Of Health To Debate Metzitzah B'peh - Yeshiva World News

New York?s Board of Health usually deals with topics like lead paint and tuberculosis, but this week is expected to draw heated arguments on the possibility of babies contracting herpes through a circumcision ritual.

On Monday, the 11-member panel is set to hear public comments on a proposal to require parental consent for circumcisions practiced by ultra-Orthodox Jews in which the mohel, or religious leader, sucks blood from the baby?s wound.

A Department of Health study found that this practice, called metzitzah b?peh, increases the risk of a herpes infection, which can be fatal for infants.

?We are fully convinced that it presents no danger,? said Rabbi David Niederman, a spokesman for the Central Rabbinical Congress of the USA and Canada, a group based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

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