Re:Why aren’t there more dogs at the doctor’s office?
by jjcon on Sunday March 20, 2022 @03:34PM
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> the paper you linked doesn't seem to support what you're saying in the slightest.
The paper was part of my edit just looking at the 4.5 million attacks in the USA alone (where rabies is essentially gone) to point out that it isn’t just rabies that makes them unsafe. Here you can read about the 25k deaths:
Re:Why aren’t there more dogs at the doctor’s office?
by rubyn00bie on Monday March 21, 2022 @11:42AM
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So you used an "estimate" as fact omitting that it's an estimate, from a BBC click-bait article, that offers NO citations. Pretty damn disingenuous, I think you should feel some shame for intentionally lying.
Re:Why aren’t there more dogs at the doctor’s office?
by codeyperson on Sunday March 20, 2022 @08:35PM
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> Dying from an actual dog bite is much more rare. There is no reliable worldwide data, but of the estimated 4.5 million dog bites in the US every year, only about 30 people die on average.
Re:Why aren’t there more dogs at the doctor’s office?
by trentgreene on Monday March 21, 2022 @01:54AM
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I'd bet that high number of households that have dogs is one reason we have lower rates of dog related injuries. Well fed pets behave quite different to street dogs
> [...] Dogs kill 25 thousand people a year
I don't see it in the paper and it's a HUGE discrepancy. Do you mean globally? Again where did you even get that number? The ONLY reference I see is this from a CDC paper [1]:
> From 1979 to 1994, dog attacks resulted in 279 deaths to humans in the United States, resulting in an average of 17 to 18 deaths per year.
Sooo... Less than 20 deaths per year, up-to 21 in the worst case estimate, in a country (USA) where ~34 million households have dogs. I'm seriously perplexed, dawg. Did you read the paper or just link to it assuming no one will even skim it?
[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9182209/