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Subscriber only More than 900 people have been treated for bites and stings in Mackay Hospital and Health Service s eight emergency departments so far this year. Dog bites topped the list with 256 presentations with mammal bites exceeding insect, reptile and marine stings. Mackay is consistent with the national data that shows 80-90 per cent of bites are from dogs, with cats 5-10 per cent followed by humans and rodents 2 per cent. Mackay Base Hospital emergency medicine specialist Dr Andrew Brier said an animal bite could range from physical tissue damage needing surgery to envenomation from a bite or sting.