Citation

De Giorgio F, Rainio J, Pascali VL, Lalu K. Forensic Sci. Int. 2007; 173(1): 64-67.

Affiliation

State Provincial Office of Southern Finland, Helsinki, Finland. fdegiorgio@tiscalinet.it

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

18401885

Abstract

Fatalities due to animal bites, the vast majority of which are associated with dogs and big cats, are relatively uncommon and rarely described in the literature. Especially rare are fatal bear attacks on humans. We herein present a forensic investigation of a fatal assault, involving numerous bites on a 42-year-old man in Finland by an European brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos).

Language: en