Contact with other mammals

**Includes:** - contact with saliva, feces or urine of mammal

**Excludes1:** - animal being ridden- see transport accidents - bitten or struck by dog (W54) - bitten or struck by rodent (W53.-) - contact with marine mammals (W56.-)

**7th character note:** - The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category W55

**7th character:** - A: initial encounter - D: subsequent encounter - S: sequela