Scary Statistics Fail: No Dog Bite Epidemic

Media hype and official government studies to the contrary, there is no epidemic of hospitalizations resulting from dog bites. The data presented are consistent with a level rate of hospitalizations from 1997 to 2008. The fluctuations during 1994 to 1996 suggest that the growth over this time period may be an artifact of the source data and the statistical methods used to estimate national rates.