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As dog ownership spirals upwards in the United States, it is important to continue to monitor the epidemiology of dog bite injuries. This study provides contemporary data on the incidence of dog bites injuries in the United States and in New York and profiles individuals who have been treated ...
An analysis of patient level data utilising hospital episode statistics for NHS England, including: temporal trends in annual incidence of admission, Poisson models of the sociodemographic characteristics of admitted patients, and direct health care cost estimates. The incidence of dog bite admissions ...
Although even 1 bite fatality is too many, and the bite numbers appear to be on the rise, by comparison there are about 85 accidents involving forklifts per year,18 and the number of deaths due to dog bites does not come close to the number of gun murders, which reached nearly 21,000 ...
Raising awareness among the owners about dog bite/rabies through health education is important to reduce dog bite fatality. CONFLICT OF INTEREST There is no conflict of interest. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The authors are thankful to the farmers (patient owners) from Bangladesh and India for providing ...
This is important as bite education strategies are often structured around the ladder of aggression38. This theory proposes that dog behaviours before a bite escalate gradually (in the time immediately before the bite or over the years), with some behaviours (like lip licking or head turning), ...
We identified a case of rabies by questioning the respondents: (1) whether the patient was diagnosed with rabies by a registered physician and/or (2) whether the patient had hydrophobia, photophobia, aerophobia, agitation or hyper salivation with a his- tory of animal bite 3 months before ...
Quantitative estimates of human mortality due to rabies have been frequently based on dog-bite injuries, estimates of the densities of dog populations, human population density and human-to-dog ratios, and knowledge of the incidence of bite injuries and risk of canine rabies within different populat...
In May, 1820, I attended on a bitch at Pimlico. She had snapped at the owner, bitten the man-servant and several dogs, was eagerly watching imaginary objects, and had the peculiar rabid howl. I offered her water. She started back with a strange expression of horror, and fell into viole...
The dog bite indicator is also influenced by people’s propensity to report bites for treatment, hence if the intervention includes an education programme on bite treatment or improving the delivery of PEP through health services, incidence of reported bites may increase irrespective of number of bit...