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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, pit bulls averaged 28.4 deaths per year, an increase of over 850%.resources
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1891 Fatal Pit Bull Attack – John Doe Meyer
April 1891, Dubuque County, IA John Doe Meyer, 10-years old Fatal dog attack: bulldog (pit bull-type) News Boiled Down The 10-year old son of H. H. Meyer, a milkman living at Dubuque, Iowa, was fatally bitten by a savage bulldog … Continue reading
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