News tagged with dog bites


Dog bites a particular threat to young children, especially as temperatures rise

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Young children are especially vulnerable to severe dog bites in the head and neck areas, and there is a correlation between cases of dog bites and rising temperatures, according to new research published in the March 2009 ...


Respiratory illnesses and dog bites a concern for travelers to China for 2008 Olympics

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 30, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As 600,000 visitors and athletes gear up to travel to China for the 2008 Olympic Games, travelers should be most concerned about respiratory illnesses and dog bites, according to report by an Emory University travelers' health ...





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Seriousness of Animal Bites Under-Recognised in Australia

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- One in two Australians are bitten by an animal at least once in their lifetime and 2% of the population is bitten each year, according to a review article published in the latest issue of Emergency Medicine ...


Children should not be left unsupervised with dogs, say experts

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created Feb 23, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Children should not be left unsupervised to play with a dog, say experts in this week’s BMJ. Their advice is part of a review aimed at doctors who deal with dog bites.


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What really prompts the dog's "guilty look"

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 7

What dog owner has not come home to a broken vase or other valuable items and a guilty-looking dog slouching around the house? By ingeniously setting up conditions where the owner was misinformed as to whether ...


Rabies deaths from dog bites could be eliminated

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Someone in the developing world - particularly in rural Africa - dies from a rabid dog bite every 10 minutes.


S. Korean firm to open major dog cloning centre

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A South Korean biotechnology firm will early next year open a centre capable eventually of producing up to 1,000 cloned dogs annually, a company executive said Friday.


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Cradle and birthday of dog identified

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Previous studies in the field have indicated that East Asia is where the wolf was tamed and became the dog. It was not possible to be more precise than that. But now researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology ...


Using 'dominance' to explain dog behavior is old hat

Using 'dominance' to explain dog behavior is old hat

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (15) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study shows how the behaviour of dogs has been misunderstood for generations: in fact using misplaced ideas about dog behaviour and training is likely to cause rather than cure unwanted ...


When it comes to transmission of MRSA and C. difficile, dogs are not necessarily man's best friend

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In a letter to the Editor of the Journal of Hospital Infection, published by Elsevier, S. Lefebvre and J.S. Weese from the University of Guelph in Canada describe a study that investigated whether MRSA and C.difficile could be passed b ...


Hwang Woo-Suk was fired from Seoul National University for fraud

S.Korea scientist wins dog cloning court battle

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk has won a copyright battle over dog-cloning techniques his colleagues said Saturday.


Dogs are aggressive if they are trained badly

Dogs are aggressive if they are trained badly

Biology / Other

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (10) | comments 6

Many dogs are put down or abandoned due to their violent nature, but contrary to popular belief, breed has little to do with a dog's aggressive behaviour compared to all the owner-dependant factors. This is ...



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