Dog Bites Are No Laughing Matter
Dog bites are no joke - they affect as many as 4.7 million people in the US every year. According to a survey done by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, two percent of the population receives a dog bite every year.
Of these bites 800,000 will require medical attention; that amounts to one out of every six bites. Around the country hospital emergency departments will receive 1,008 bite victims daily, 368,000 annually.
Over the past sixteen years the number of people being hospitalized due to their bites increased dramatically, 86 percent, from 1993 to 2008. Each patient could expect to pay an average of $18,200 for their bite-related visit.
The old running joke about postal carriers is no joke as they receive an average of 2,581 bites per year.
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