Why Luis Suarez's World Cup bite was really dangerous

June 28, 2014 01:37

FIFA, soccer's international governing body, has officially banned Uruguay striker Luis Suarez from the remainder of the World Cup for his alleged bite of Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini this week.

And for good reason: Not only is biting another player incredibly unsportsmanlike and just plain dirty; it's also extremely dangerous.

Of all the bites you can getnearly 1 percent of emergency room visits are due to mammalian bites of various kindsthe human one is "particularly notorious," as one study puts it, due to the risk of subsequent infection.

Ten percent of human bites that break the skin become infected, quite a high number in comparison with infection rates generally. For example, in a recent study of 297 emergency room patients with lacerations, the infection rate was only 3.4%.

That's because, to put it bluntly, we have pretty dirty mouths.

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