The city is zero for six in garnering full cooperation from the
Hasidic community in rooting out mohels involved in neonatal herpes
cases, but Mayor de Blasio says he still needs to evaluate whether a
deal with the community is “working effectively or not.”
Under the February 2015 agreement on the controversial religious practice,
where mohels suck blood from an incision during a circumcision, the
city eliminated a parental consent form mandated by former Mayor
Bloomberg.
In exchange, the community pledged to identify a mohel after an
infant contracts herpes and to have the mohel tested to determine if
there’s a strain match.
Last week, health officials said just 2 of 6 mohels had been identified and that — rather than being tested — they were simply advised not to continue with the practice, known as metzitzah b’peh.
City evaluating Hasidic community’s cooperation in herpes cases | New York Post
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