Results
A human bending over a dog, putting the face close to the dog’s
face and gazing between human and dog immediately preceded a
dog bite to the face in 76%, 19% and 5% of all cases (n = 132), respectively
(Table 1). Victims did not step on the dog, pull the dog’s
hair or body, fall on the dog, punish the dog, scold the dog, or trim
the dog’s nails immediately before any of the incidents of bites to
the face. The proportion of male and female victims was 40% and
60%, respectively. The mean age (±standard error, SE) of the victims
was 15.4 ± 1.2 years. Children and adults were bitten in 70% and 30%
of cases, respectively. Eighty-four percent of all bitten children were