Reduce injuries, disabilities, and deaths due to unintentional injuries and violence. Reduce hospital emergency department visits for nonfatal dog bite injuries. Better than the best. Data have not been analyzed. Data are not collected.
Data are statistically unreliable.
Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population. Between 500,000 and 4 million persons in the United States are bitten by dogs every year. Children are among the most vulnerable, and almost half of all people are estimated to have been bitten by a dog during childhood. Among children, more than half of bites have been to the head, face, or neck. Because of the risk to large parts of the population, especially children, effective prevention strategies are needed to reduce the painful and costly burden of dog bites.