Severe dog attacks are a probable product of many factors not only animal related but also victim related.
Most of the responsibility for such attacks lies with the dog owner.
Prevention strategies should be addressed to both dog owners and people who do not own a dog by educating about how to deal with dogs
Attacking incidents occur most frequently around the victim’s home. Attacks by pet dogs usually cause injuries to the head and neck region, whereas stray dogs often bite the hands and legs; this is probably because people have different attitudes and behaviors with pets or with stray dogs. Children are frequently bitten in the head and neck area because these anatomic regions are of the same height as the dogs’ mouth.
Overall, using the probability model, global estimates of human rabies deaths are similar to previous studies, with an estimated 61 000 human rabies deaths per year occurring globally (95% CI, 52 200–70 700) and 23 800 in Africa (95% CI, 21 000–28 000) (WHO 2013).
We categorised 67 as predatory attacks, 380 as rabid attacks, and 42 as provoked / defensive attacks.
From the technical literature we found new evidence of attacks in countries as diverse as Belarus (Mishaeva et al. 2007), China (Wang et al. 2014), India (Isloor et al. 2014), Iran (Gholami et al. 2014, 2017, Simani et al. 2012), Mongolia (Odontsetseg et al. 2009), Turkey (Ambarli 2019, Ambarli et al. 2016, Kuvat et al. 2011, Tug 2005, Turkmen et al. 2012), and Ukraine (Shkvyria et al. 2018). In addition, there was one record of an attack within the present day boundaries of the European Union, in Croatia (Lojkic et al. 2010. Our survey of recent media cases found robust evidence of attacks by rabid wolves in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Russia, Israel, Turkey, and Ukraine
Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are the sources of 89% of confirmed cases of wolf rabies in the wider “European” zone as monitored by WHO for the period 2002–2019.
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