{"id":7452,"date":"2023-09-08T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7452"},"modified":"2023-09-07T17:59:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T17:59:03","slug":"quickstats-number-of-deaths-resulting-from-being-bitten-or-struck-by-a-dog-by-sex-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-2011-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2023\/09\/08\/7452\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Number of Deaths Resulting from Being Bitten or Struck by a Dog, by Sex \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2011\u20132021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"order-4\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7236a6.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/figures\/mm7236a6-F.gif?_=05526\" width=\"750\" height=\"445\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\">During 2011\u20132021, a total of 468 deaths from being bitten or struck by a dog occurred (average = 43 deaths per year).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\">The annual number of deaths ranged from 31 (2016) to 81 (2021). During 2011\u20132016, more deaths occurred among males than among females during most years; however, during 2017\u20132021, more deaths occurred among females than among males.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\">From 2018 to 2021, deaths more than doubled for both males (from 15 to 37) and females (from 20 to 44).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"order-4 w-100\">\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data, 2011\u20132021.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/Deaths-by-Underlying-Cause.html\">https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/Deaths-by-Underlying-Cause.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2011\u20132021, a total of 468 deaths from being bitten or struck by a dog occurred (average = 43 deaths per year). The annual number of deaths ranged from 31 (2016) to 81 (2021). During 2011\u20132016, more deaths occurred among males than among females during most years; however, during 2017\u20132021, more deaths occurred among females<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,63673,47317,53752,53751],"tags":[64370],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7454,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452\/revisions\/7454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}