
Suspected New Neonatal Herpes Case Being Investigated
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'The New York City Department of Health received a report within the last week of an infant with symptoms of neonatal herpes and the case is currently under investigation, The Jewish Week has learned. (By law, such reports must be made within 24 hours of a diagnosis).
While the health department could not confirm where the report came from or whether it involved the circumcision ritual metzitzah b'peh, a source in the medical community told The Jewish Week that a suspected case of neonatal herpes related to metzitzah b'peh, or oral suction, has been treated at Maimonides Hospital within the past week.
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This case comes on the heels of revelations that four other infants who had undergone the controversial circumcision rite of metzitzah b'peh were treated for neonatal herpes, two in Rockland County in 2009 and two more recently in New Jersey.'
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