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Animal Bites (cont.)

Animal Bites Causes

Animal bites usually are either provoked or unprovoked. A provoked bite would occur if you tease a dog or try to take away the dog’s food while the dog is eating. An unprovoked bite may occur if you are sitting in your backyard and a raccoon runs out of the woods and attacks you for no known reason.



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Because many animal bites are never reported, determining the exact incidence of animal bite wounds in the United States, let alone the world, is difficult.

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