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U.S. fatal pit bull attacks have surpassed 370 since 1998; the last year the CDC studied fatal dog attack data by breed. In the last 8-year period of the CDC study (1991 to 1998), pit bulls averaged 2.9 deaths per year. From 2013 to 2020, the most recent 8-year period, pit bulls averaged 28.4 deaths per year, an increase of over 850%.resources
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1881 Fatal Pit Bull Attack – Frank Fox
November 1881, New Castle County, DE Frank Fox, 4 Fatal dog attack involving bulldog (pit bull-type) A Boy Killed by a Bulldog [Special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun] Wilmington, Del., Nov 13 — Frank Fox, a four-year old son of … Continue reading
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1881 Fatal Pit Bull Attack – Miss Shearer
February 1881, McKean County, PA Miss Shearer, 16 Fatal dog attack: bulldog (pit bull-type) Poverty Bay Herald Volume VIII, Issue 1242 February 9, 1881 At Bradford Pennsylvania, on October 10th, Captain John Shearer of North Beaver having purchased a large … Continue reading
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