re: The mohel scene from “The Bris” Seinfeld episode

A baby died of this as recently as 2004 in Brooklyn.

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In the 2004 death and the more recent one, a mohel infected the penile wounds with Type 1 herpes I (HSV-1), which affects the mouth and throat.

In a practice that takes place during a ceremony known as the bris, a circumcision practitioner, or mohel, removes the foreskin from the baby's penis, and with his mouth sucks the blood from the incision to cleanse the wound.

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So that the show would promote or even discuss the Orthodoxy practice of a Bris to mainstream America as something to be accepted is one of the lowlights. This is not a medical nor sterile circumcision that you get in a hospital. It's a cringeworthy episode that overstepped.