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PublishedApril 05th 2014
Study says circumcision helps prevent diseases
'As with vaccination, circumcision of newborn boys should be part of public health policies,' says study
A new study has come to the conclusion that circumcising infant males to avoid diseases should be "part of public health policies," comparing the practice to vaccination.
Led by Brian Morris of the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Sydney, the Australian-American team of researchers found that half of uncircumcised males will contract an adverse medical condition due to their foreskin.
“As with vaccination, circumcision of newborn boys should be part of public health policies,” the three coauthors wrote in their study, whose main findings were published on Wednesday on the medical website mayoclinicproceedings.org.
“A risk-benefit analysis of conditions that neonatal circumcision protects against revealed that benefits exceed risks by at least 100 to one,” wrote Morris and his co-authors Stefan A. Bailis of the University of Sydney and Thomas E. Wiswell, a neonatologist from Florida.
According to the study, titled: “Circumcision Rates in the United States: Rising or Falling? What Effect Might the New Affirmative Pediatric Policy Statement Have?” circumcision rates of infant males are in decline in the United States.
In 2012, the American Academy of Pediatrics published a study stating that the “preventive health benefits of elective circumcision of male newborns outweigh the risks of the procedure” and that “benefits include a significant reduction of urinary tract infections in the first year of life and, subsequently, in the risk of heterosexual acquisition of HIV and in the transmission of other sexually transmitted infections.”
Ritual circumcision of infants has come under attack in northern Europe and Scandinavia in particular in recent years, with some decrying the practice as a form of child abuse.
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