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Aggressive rooster pecks elderly woman collecting eggs to death in Australia

‘Never trust a rooster,’ says Professor Roger Byard

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12:18 - 5/09/2019 Perşembe
Update: 12:22 - 5/09/2019 Perşembe
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An elderly Australian woman was killed in a terrifying freak accident with a rooster as the main culprit.

The unnamed 76-year-old woman was collecting eggs from her backyard chicken coop when the aggressive rooster attacked her lower-left leg repeatedly.

The rooster’s pecking caused “significant hemorrhage” on a varicose vein that led the woman to collapse and bleed to death, according to a report published in the Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology journal.

The autopsy stated that her cause of death is exsanguination, a severe loss of blood.

"Even relatively small domestic animals may be able to inflict lethal injuries in individuals if there are specific vascular vulnerabilities present," the report said.

Professor Roger Byard, a pathology professor at the University of Adelaide and co-author of the report, raised concerns about the dangers of small domestic animals and warned elderly people about their vulnerability.

"There are a couple of messages, one is never trust a rooster … the second one is if you've got varicose veins, get something done about it," he told ABC News.

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