Two more infants have been infected with a deadly herpes virus in the last three months after undergoing a controversial religious oral circumcision in New York City. The latest cases bring the count to 13 infants since 2000, two of which suffered brain damage and two died from the virus which can rapidly spread throughout its body. The ultra-Orthodox Jewish practice of metzitzah b'peh *requires* *a* *practitioner* *to* *orally* *suck* *the* *baby's* *penis* to 'cleanse' the open wound following its circumcision, making them susceptible to the virus.