Nixon J, Pearn J, McGarn F
Med J Aust. 1980 Feb 23;1(4):175-6.
A consecutive series of 800 mammalian bites is reported from The Canberra Hospital. Of these, 66% were dog bites; 119 children were bitten by dogs (requiring hospital attention) over a 30-month period, giving an average dog-bite rate for the total population of 184 per 100,000 per year. One dog in 38 causes an injury requiring hospital attention. Thirty-seven per cent of the 119 children were bitten on the face and head, the modal age for this type of injury being three years. Ten per cent of cases required sutures. Each year, one person in 540 suffers from a dog-bite requiring hospital attention. If rabies became endemic, 26,000 antirabies immunization regimens would have to be undertaken annually for dog-bite alone, and a total of 38,000 annually for mammalian bites of all types.
堪培拉医院报告了连续的800例哺乳动物咬伤病例。其中，66%为狗咬伤；在30个月的时间里，有119名儿童被狗咬伤（需要住院治疗），总人口的平均狗咬伤率为每年每10万人中有184例。每38只狗中就有1只造成需要住院治疗的伤害。119名儿童中有37%的人面部和头部被咬伤，这类伤害的最常见年龄为3岁。10%的病例需要缝合。每年，每540人中就有1人因狗咬伤需要住院治疗。如果狂犬病成为地方病，仅狗咬伤每年就必须进行26000次抗狂犬病免疫接种，所有类型的哺乳动物咬伤每年总共要进行38000次。
