NEW YORK -- Prosecutors are investigating the death of a baby who contracted herpes after a "ritual circumcision with oral suction," in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish ceremony.
The ceremony, known in Hebrew as metzitzah b'peh, takes place during a ceremony known as the bris.
During the ceremony, 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.
In 2004, city health officials say another baby boy died after a similar circumcision was carried out in Rockland County.
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