Using this information, the amygdala appraised a situation—I think this charging dog wants to bite me—and triggers a response by radiating nerve signals throughout the body.

Doctors in France said they had performed the world's first partial face transplant, forging into a risky medical frontier with their operation on a woman disfigured by a dog bite.

Ancient Romans, it seems, believed that the bite of a mad dog could only be cured by burning the dog's hair and drinking it with water.