| Literature DB >> 14639812 |
Knut Albrecht1, Dirk Breitmeier, Armin Fieguth, Hans Dieter Tröger.
Abstract
The article summarises three fatalities after attacks by wild animals. The first case describes a 90-year-old woman who died as a result of pneumonia after a bear fell on her and caused multiple chest fractures. The second case deals with a 76-year-old woman who was hit in the middle face by the hoof of a camel and, thereafter, died of myocardial infarction. The third case describes a 27-year-old biologist who died from severe blunt trauma after an attack of a wild living elephant. The article gives a summary of typical injury patterns of selected wild animals and outlines potential reasons of death as a result of the injuries.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 14639812
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Arch Kriminol ISSN: 0003-9225