Insurance agent Alex Case gave Marion Kiwanis members a view of the problem of dog bite injuries in Marion County and nationwide Feb. 5 when he spoke at the club’s weekly meeting.
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Between 2005 and 2018, 469 people — more than half of them younger than 10 — died from dog bites in the U.S., he said.
The breed most often identified as having inflicted serious injury or death between 1982 and 2014 was the pit bull, but more than 30 breeds and mixed breeds of dogs are incorrectly identified as pit bulls, Case said.
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Pit bulls are three times as likely to be named a culprit in a serious dog attack than the next nine breeds together.
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