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801: Circumcision | Skeptical Sunday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Is This Really a Hypnotic Herpes Infection?
The ritual is called Matitsa Bepa, and it's where the Moyle cleans the circumcision wound by sucking the blood from the baby's penis. It gained national attention in 2012 when a Moyle in New York City put his mouth on a baby's circumcised penis, sucked the blood, and then the baby contracted herpes, and then died two weeks later in the hospital. The Times of Israel reported in 2020 that four infants contracted herpes within six months of that same year, and they were all hospitalized. In 2003 and 2004, three babies, including a set of twins, were infected with type 1 herpes, and the cases were linked to the same type of foreskin-sucking ritual
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