Biting the heads off baby penises is a custom Breh?
Traditionally, the
mohel uses a knife to circumcise the newborn. Today, doctors and some non-Orthodox
mohalim use a perforating clamp before they cut the skin. Under Jewish law, a mohel must
draw blood from the circumcision wound. Most mohels do it by hand with a suction device,
but some Orthodox groups use their mouth to draw blood after cutting the foreskin.The
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.
[12] A 2013 review of cases of neonatal
HSV infections in Israel identified ritual circumcision as the source of HSV-1 transmission in 31.8% of the cases.
Baby Dies of Herpes in Ritual Circumcision By Orthodox Jews
New York City is investigating the death last September of a baby who contracted herpes after a "ritual circumcision with oral suction," in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish ceremony known in Hebrew as metzitzah b'peh.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/baby-d...l-circumcision-nyc-orthodox/story?id=15888618