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NEW YORK -- City health officials are investigating the death of a baby boy who was one of three infants to contract herpes after a rabbi circumcised them. Ten days after Rabbi Yitzhok Fischer performed religious circumcisions on twins last October, one died of herpes and the other tested positive for the virus, according to complaint filed by the health department in Manhattan Supreme Court. The complaint, reported in Wednesday's edition of the New York Daily News, also said health officials later found a third baby who had contracted herpes after being circumcised by Fischer in late 2003. Under Jewish...

handful of wrestlers at Crater and Grants Pass high schools have been diagnosed with herpes, athletic directors at both schools confirmed Thursday. The Crater wrestlers apparently contracted the viral infection while competing at a tournament in Fresno, Calif., Dec. 11-12 and then spread the disease to the Grants Pass team when they met for a dual match on Dec. 16, Crater athletic director John Beck said. A dual match between Grants Pass and South Medford scheduled for Thursday was postponed until next week. The Crater wrestlers, meanwhile, were cleared by a doctor and will compete Saturday at the Oregon Classic...

Hey Kids! Want Good Sex? Try Abstinence.Warren ThrockmortonAs a mental health counselor, I am really troubled by the numbers of adolescents that I have counseled who cried for days and hurt for years because they engaged in "safer sex" within dead end, unfulfilling relationships. Sadly, they learned that “safer sex” can be hazardous to their emotional health. I think the current political debate concerning abstinence vs. contraceptive based sexual education has failed to include an important variable in the discussion of what to teach in school: sexual well being. In many contemporary sexual education curricula, young boys and girls who...

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Herpes Risk from Ancient Form of Circumcision Wed Aug 4, 3:33 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Eight infants developed genital herpes following an ancient Jewish ritual of circumcision, highlighting the dangers associated with this procedure, researchers report. Yahoo! Health Have questions about your health? Find answers here. All of the infants underwent a form of circumcision in which the circumciser, or mohel, takes wine in his mouth and sucks the blood from the newly created wound, then spits the blood and wine mixture into a receptacle. The circumciser repeats this procedure, known as metzitzah, until the bleeding stops....

KEY WEST -- A herpeslike virus has infected up to 10 percent of baby lobsters in the Florida Keys, causing some fisheries experts to wonder whether the disease explains dips in lobster catches in recent years. Biologists doubt that the disease can be transferred to humans but have alerted the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just in case. In all but two cases, the virus has been detected only in lobsters that are less than 6 months old, not yet at reproduction age, and smaller than 3 inches, the minimum length at which they can legally be caught....

High herpes rate found in metro Atlanta City led 5 others in national study By CATHERINE E. SHOICHET The Atlanta Journal-Constitution More than one-third of people in suburban Atlanta who participated in a recent study tested positive for the virus that causes genital herpes. Atlanta had the highest rate of infection of the six cities in the study and also was higher than the national average of about 25 percent. Only 5 percent of the 915 Atlanta area patients in the study reported a history of the disease, which can cause painful genital sores. Many people who have the disease...

Phil Brennan Monday, Feb. 3, 2003 Every day a silent epidemic strikes 8,000 American youngsters, warns Dr. Meg Meeker, and it is killing and physically and psychologically crippling hordes of America’s children. Dr. Meeker, author of the new book "Epidemic," told a rapt C-PAC audience Friday that she was speaking "on behalf of the millions of American teen-agers who cannot speak for themselves, who cannot articulate how to preserve the sanctity of their lives as they are being crushed amidst our culture which is so toxic to their sensibilities and their sensitivities to their psyches, to their bodies, to their...

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<p>Wiley's body was discovered shortly before 10 a.m. [Dec. 20, 2001] snagged to a tree in log-strewn water next to the Hydro Electric's S.A. Murray Jr. Station in Vidalia, Louisiana.</p> <p>Police found a wallet with documents that identified the body as Wiley, a 57-year-old nationally acclaimed expert in infectious diseases ...</p>