The St. Louis City Health Department's data doesn't separate attacks by species but it show animal attacks as a whole are flat through the first five months of the year, with 240 in 2026, 230 in 2025 ...

Of all the ways that people can die in the wild, animal attacks rank among the rarer ones. Every year, somewhere between 1 and 3 people die from bear attacks in the United States; half a dozen or so ...