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Online videos indicate human and dog behaviour preceding dog bites and the context in which bites occur

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2018
YouTube videos of dog bites present an unexplored opportunity to observe dog bites directly. We recorded the context of bites, bite severity, victim and dog characteristics for 143 videos and for 56 videos we coded human and dog behaviour before the bite.
Sara C. Owczarczak-Garstecka   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Surgical Treatment of Pediatric Dog-bite Wounds: A 5-year Retrospective Review

open access: yesWestern Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2021
Introduction: Dog bites are a significant health concern in the pediatric population. Few studies published to date have stratified the injuries caused by dog bites based on surgical severity to elucidate the contributing risk factors.
Christine J. Lee   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Incidence of dog bite injuries and its associated factors in Punjab province of Pakistan

open access: yesScience in One Health, 2022
Dog bites are a major cause for transmission of rabies virus to humans. Pakistan ranks fifth among most rabies affected countries in the world. There are a few regional (ecological) studies that investigated factors that explain geographic disparities in
Muhammad Alfahad   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Epidemiology of Dog Bite Incidents in Chile: Factors Related to the Patterns of Human-Dog Relationship

open access: yesAnimals, 2021
Dog bites are one of the main public health problems. They produce important consequences for those who suffer them (physical and psychological injuries, secondary infections, sequelae, risk of transmission of zoonoses and surgeries, among others).
Carmen Luz Barrios   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the burden of dog bite cases at the National Referral Hospital in Bhutan

open access: yesBhutan Health Journal, 2022
Introduction: Dog bite is a public health problem in Bhutan incurring huge cost of treatment. The general objective of the study was to see the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the burden of dog bite cases and the profile of patients, comparing with that ...
Chhabi Lal Adhikari   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Animal bites presenting to the emergency department: Spectrum, seasonal variation, and outcome

open access: yesJournal of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, 2021
Context: Animal bites including insect, reptile, and mammalian bites are common presentations to the emergency department (ED). Although profile and outcome of individual bites are described in detail, the literature on comprehensive overall clinical ...
Kundavaram Paul Prabhakar Abhilash   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dog demography, animal bite management and rabies knowledge-attitude and practices in the Awash Basin, Eastern Ethiopia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Rabies is a viral zoonosis that has been described in limited numbers of studies in Ethiopia at large and among pastoralists in particular. This study assessed dog demography, bite wound prevalence and management, potential risk factors of disease ...
Bekele, Shiferaw   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Dog bites in children

open access: yes, 2005
Most studies on dog bite incidents are carried out in the United States where dog bite injuries are the childhood public health problem most frequently reported [1]. Injuries from dog bites may cause a number of physical problems (e.g.
C. Phillips (3445811)   +3 more
core   +5 more sources

Seasonal Variation in Incidence and Severity of Dog Bites in a Union Territory of Northern India [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2019
Introduction: Dog bites pose a serious but underestimated public health problem in developing countries like India as it causes millions of injuries and thousands of deaths among its sufferers due to risk of rabies transmission.
MA Bashar, Mona Duggal
doaj   +1 more source

Domestic dog ownership in Iran is a risk factor for human infection with Leishmania infantum. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
One explanation proposed for the widespread failure to control zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis by culling infected domestic dogs is that wild canids or humans play significant roles in transmission.
Hassan Mohite   +9 more
core   +1 more source

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