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November 2004, Vol 94, No. 11 | American Journal of Public Health 1940-1941
© 2004 American Public Health Association

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Epidemiology of Hospitalizations Resulting From Dog Bites in California, 1991–1998

Katherine A. Feldman, DVM, MPH, Roger Trent, PhD and Michele T. Jay, DVM, MPVM

At the time of the study, Katherine A. Feldman and Michele T. Jay were with the Veterinary Public Health Section, Disease Investigations and Surveillance Branch, and Roger Trent was with the Injury Surveillance and Epidemiology Section, Epidemiology and Prevention for Injury Control Branch, of the California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, Calif.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Katherine A. Feldman, University of Maryland, Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine, 8075 Greenmead Dr, College Park, MD 20742 (e-mail: kfeldman{at}umd.edu).

We used population-based hospital discharge data to describe hospitalizations resulting from dog bites in California from 1991 through 1998, when there were 6676 such hospitalizations (average 835 per year; range 732 to 930), and the annual cumulative incidence for all ages was 2.6 per 100 000. Children had more than twice the risk of adults, and Asians had lower rates than Whites. Children aged 0 to 9 years were more likely to suffer wounds to the head and face.




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