The Yated Ne'eman's Yechiel Sever reports that a Beit Shemesh community has recently "started operating a bilirubinometer," sparing parents the need to take their children to Jerusalem to have such testing performed.
According to ace reporter Sever:
"The test is performed on babies suspected of having hepatitis, which is relatively common among newborns."Lest any people rely on the Yated for medical advice (and unfortunately, I do not doubt the existence of many such pious idiots), it should be reiterated that hepatitis is not common (relatively or otherwise) among newborns.
Yechiel Sever is presumably referring to neonatal jaundice, which in most newborns is decidedly unrelated to hepatitis.
In other infant news, according to a peer-reviewed article in Pediatrics, the following can actually cause neonatal herpes infections: metzitzah b'peh.
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