Sentences with phrase «dog bite victims require»

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that approximately one in five dog bite victims require medical attention.

Nearly half of hospitalized dog bite victims required a skin infection treatment and 58 percent needed stitches, skin grafts, wound debridement or other similar procedure.

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Dog - bite victims requiring medical attention number 500,000 to 1 million annually.

Almost 1 in 5 people bitten by dogs require medical attention, and by far, the most common victims of dog bites are children.

There are over a million dog bite cases or injuries each year in the US with approximately 30,000 requiring victims to undergo reconstructive surgery.

The victims of aggressive dogs, biting dogs, and other vicious dog behavior and pet attacks may require physical therapy and extensive surgeries.

The victims of biting dogs or other animal bites may require skin grafting, reconstructive surgery, and / or physical therapy.

These statutes therefore create a single exception to the one bite rule: the victim is not required to prove scienter if a dog bites him while the dog is at large and if the dog is at large because of its owner's negligence.

The MSPCA estimates 4.7 million dog bite injuries occur in the U.S. each year, with 800,000 victims requiring medical treatment.

Whether the victim is a child or an adult, a dog bite can cause severe physical and emotional damage that can require years of recovery.