Dangerous animals
Koljonen, V.; Söderlund, T.; Mäkisalo, H.; Gissler, M.
Duodecim; Laaketieteellinen Aikakauskirja 132(13-14): 1247-1251
2016
ISSN/ISBN: 0012-7183 PMID: 27522833 Document Number: 688121
Contacts between humans and animals inevitably involve encounters possibly resulting in the human being injured. During the period of 2000 to 2014 almost 90 people died in this kind of conflict in Finland. Of these deaths, one third were associated with horses. In addition, over the same period 85 people died in traffic accidents in which an animal was hit by a car. Accidents requiring hospitalization occurred for approx. 8 000 people.