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323000 ED visits per year verified

Annual US ED visits for dog bites

as of 2026-09-07 · license: public-domain

  • This is a secondary citation inside the Langley 2014 paper's introduction, not that paper's own finding -- included here only to give the cat figure a same-document, like-for-like comparison point.
  • Different measurement window (2005-2009) than the cat figure (2001-2010 average); not a same-period ratio.

Source

Wilderness & Environmental Medicine (quoting a separate cited study in its introduction) — Langley R, Mack K, Haileyesus T, Proescholdbell S, Annest JL. National Estimates of Noncanine Bite and Sting Injuries Treated in US Hospital Emergency Departments, 2001-2010. Wilderness Environ Med. 2014;25(1):14-23.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2013.08.007
retrieved 2026-09-07

Method

Quoted verbatim from the source above.

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