Cat bites judged provoked (single-city study)

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

• Single city (El Paso, TX), 1995, animal-control surveillance records -- not a national figure, and 'provoked' is the reporting officer's judgment call, not a standardized clinical definition.

Source

Public Health Reports / CDC — Patrick GR, O'Rourke KM. Dog and cat bites: epidemiologic analyses suggest different prevention strategies. Public Health Rep. 1998;113(3):252-257.
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/64641
retrieved 2026-09-07

Method

Quoted verbatim from the source above.

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