Hospitalization and dog bite fatalities highest in Alaska between 1991 - 2002
Recently released epidemiological data from Alaska covering the period from 1991 to 2002, shows that Alaska led the nation in hospitalizations due to dog related injuries, and also in dog bite fatalities.
During this period, nine people died as a result of being attacked by a dog and 288 were hospitalized for treatment. The interior of Alaska had the highest injury rate: 4.6 injuries per 100,000 people. This data, reported in the Fairbanks Daily News-Minor was derived from of a dog bite fatality database maintained in Alaska, and from the Alaska Trauma Registry.
Note however that subsequent to 2002, based on statistics now more widely available, Alaska may not be the State where most fatalities happen. Statistics on on dog bite fatalities from 2004 onwards suggests that this is not the case.
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