A fatal mongoose bite
- Nilesh Keshav Tumram1,
- Rajesh Vaijnathrao Bardale2,
- Pradeep Gangadhar Dixit2,
- Ashutosh Yashwant Deshmukh2
- 1Department of Forensic Medicine, Government Medical College, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
- 2Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Government Medical College, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
- Correspondence to Dr Nilesh Keshav Tumram, ntumram{at}gmail.com
Summary
Animal bite is a bite wound from a pet, farm or wild animal. Dog bites make up 80–85% of all reported incidents. Cats amount for about 10% of reported bites and other animals such as rodents, rabbits, horses, raccoons, bats and monkeys amount to 5–10%. Bites by mongoose are uncommon. Here, we present a case of fatal mongoose bite to an elderly woman who died as a complication of streptococcal infection at the bite site.
