A 2-week-old baby was infected with herpes virus (HSV-1) by a rabbi during ritual circumcision. The ritual includes pedophile sucking on children's intimate areas. The virus reached the brain, making the infected kid a long hospitalization at Wolfson Medical Center infirmary in the confederate part of Tel Aviv. The case was described by the judaic paper Maariv.
The rabbi infected the baby with a serious illness during circumcision. Modern medicine is increasingly confronted with the challenges of maintaining past spiritual practices. 1 of the most disgusting examples is the ritual associated with circumcision in the environments of orthodox Talmudism – so-called. metzitzah b’peh. This issue is emotional not only due to its cultural character, but besides due to the possible wellness consequences.
Practice metzitzah b’peh, utilized in ultraorthodox environments during the circumcision of newborns, consists of direct contact of the mouth of the performer with an open wound to the child. The rabbi sucks a tiny penis, which in the light of modern cognition represents an apparent epidemiological threat. It is besides a visible symbol of the attachment of any Jews to practices, which can be called strict pedophile.
The case of a newborn herpes virus (HSV) infection described in Israeli media shows that this is not just a theoretical risk. As a consequence of this practice, the kid suffered a severe infection that could lead to neurological harm and even life-threatening. These situations are peculiarly worrying due to the fact that they concern the most susceptible patients – newborns whose immune strategy is not yet full developed.
From a medical perspective, it is hard to find any justification for maintaining this practice. The saliva can carry viruses and bacteria, and contact with the open wound creates a direct way of infection. Moreover, there are safe, modern alternatives to circumcision, which completely destruct this risk, without violating the essence of the ritual itself.
Religious freedom should not mean consent to endangering the wellness and life of children, especially erstwhile the threat is known and avoidable. In this context, maintaining this practice seems to be not so much an expression of tradition as ignoring basic safety standards. Therefore, more and more doctors and public wellness institutions are calling for her to be abandoned completely. In a planet where we have reliable medical knowledge, it is hard to accept a situation where avoidable risks are maintained solely for moral reasons.
Unfortunately, mainstream media and left-wing environments, alternatively of criticizing Talmudic pedophile acts associated with circumcision, like to focus on fighting Catholic baptism of infants, due to the fact that supposedly the wailing of the head with a tiny amount of clean water violates the “rights of the child”. It's evidently absurd to show who these environments truly service and who they fear.
