|
|
|
|
|
Dogs Dog Bite Related Fatalities Breed Restrictions
From 1979 through 1996, dog attacks resulted in reports (eg, dying of rabies from a dog bite, strangling more than 300 human dog bite-related fatalities on a leash or scarf pulled by a dog, dying from fire ant bites after being pushed on a mound by a dog, or dying from a motor vehicle or bicycle crash while being chased by a dog), for 1997 and 1998, we excluded 3 additional deaths: death resulting from infection sec- ondary to a dog bite, death attributable to trauma from being knocked over but not bitten, and death resulting from myocardial infarction, which was caused by an individual being chased but not bitten. For the 20-year study, we excluded 4 human deaths from attacks by guard or police dogs “at work” and approximately 90 deaths when breed information for the attacking dog was unavailable; thus, this study included approxi- mately 72% of cases of human DBRF and is not exhaustive. We tallied data in 2 ways to provide alternatives for breed data interpretation. First, we used a human death-based approach in which we counted whether a particular breed was involved in a death. When multi- ple dogs of the same breed were involved in the same fatal episode, that breed was counted only once (eg, if 10 Akitas attacked and killed a person, that breed was counted once rather than 10 times). When crossbred dogs were involved in a fatality, each suspected breed in the dog’s lineage was counted once for that episode. Second, we tallied data by dog. When multiple dogs of the same breed were involved in a single incident, each dog was counted individually. We allocated crossbred dogs into separate breeds and counted them similarly (eg, if 3 Great Dane-Rottweiler crossbreeds attacked a person, Great Dane was counted 3 times under cross- bred, and Rottweiler was counted 3 times under cross- bred). Data are presented separately for dogs identified as pure- and crossbred. Lastly, dogs were classified as to whether they were on or off the owners’ property and restrained (eg, chained or leashed) or unrestrained at the time of the attack. ResultsFatalities during 1997 and 1998—During 1997 and 1998, at least 27 people died as the result of dog bite attacks (18 people in 1997 and 9 in 1998). Of 27 human DBRF 19 (70%) were children (1 was ≤ 30 days , old, 3 were between 7 and 11 months old, 9 were between 1 and 4 years old, and 6 were between 5 and 11 years old), and 8 were adults (ages 17, 44, 64, 70, 73, 75, 75, and 87). Approximately half (n = 15 [56%]) of the human DBRF were male. Five (19%) deaths involved unrestrained dogs off the owners’ property, 18 (67%) involved unrestrained dogs on the owners’ property, 3 (11%) involved restrained dogs on the owners’ property, and 1 (4%) involved a restrained dog off the owner’s property. Eighteen (67%) deaths involved 1 dog, 5 (19%) involved 2 dogs, and 4 (15%) involved 3 dogs. Sixty percent of attacks by unrestrained dogs off the owners’ property involved more than 1 dog. Fatal attacks were reported from 17 states (California [4 deaths]; Georgia and North Carolina [3 each]; Kansas, Texas, and Wisconsin [2 each]; and Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New York, South Dakota, and Tennessee [1 each]). Some breed information was reported for all 27 attacks. As in recent years, Rottweilers were the most commonly reported breed involved in fatal attacks, fol- lowed by pit bull-type dogs (Table 1). Together, these 2 breeds were involved in approximately 60% of human deaths.
.dog-bites. - Google News
Common Misspellings include addtional alaka, alasa alternitives adn, anbd approxamately, approxiately, approximitely, aproximately beng betwen, bewteen inbetween, vetween bu childen, cildren commongly buring, durig, durring, duting dieing eahc epsiode firt, firts fomr, frome gerat, graet, grat, gret gaurd individualy infomation, informtion intepretation inot massachussets, massachussetts michagan misouri monts moreso, mroe, omre noeth, noth nto, onot lonly, onyl parituclar, particualr, paticular peopel smae seperate seperately similiarity, similarily, similiarly smoe, soem sourth staes studdy tahn, thna taht, tath, thast, thgat, thta, thyat hten, tghe, ther, thge, tjhe theese htey, tehy, tyhe htis, thsi, tihs throught, thru tiem, timne, tiome toghether unsed vehicule wass, weas, ws wehn, whn whther hwihc, whcih, whic, whihc, whlch, wich hwile eyar, yearm, yera eyars, eyasr, yeasr, yeras, yersa |
|
|
|
