A Study on Factors Contributing to the Severity of Dog Bites

Dog bites result in several thousand visits to emergency rooms and numerous hospitalizations each year. The French Institute for Public Health Surveillance has conducted two studies on this topic.

The first study, conducted between May 2009 and June 2010 as part of an interdisciplinary collaboration among epidemiologists, physicians, and veterinary behaviorists, aimed to identify the factors contributing to the severity of dog bites (the victim’s age and gender, the dog’s characteristics, the relationship between the victim and the dog, etc.).

Following this work, a second study, conducted between September 2010 and November 2011, aimed to describe the long-term effects on bite victims more than one year after their visit to the emergency room

Survey on the Aftereffects of Dog Bites