text: The author of the article writes: "Out of thousands of sightings of black bears in Canada and the U.S. every year, on average there is only one black bear-caused fatality every few years."  Actually, there were 5 fatal attacks in north America in 2014, five more in 2015, and one in 2016.  Non-fatal attacks resulting in human injury during those years numbered 23, 40, and 35.