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Effectiveness of breed-specific legislation in decreasing the incidence of dog-bite injury hospitalisations in people in the Canadian province of Manitoba

BACKGROUND: The city of Winnipeg was the first among several jurisdictions in Manitoba, Canada, to introduce breed specific legislation (BSL) by banning pit-bull type dogs in 1990. The objective of the present work was to study the effectiveness of BSL in Manitoba. METHODS: Temporal differences in i...

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Autores principales: Raghavan, Malathi, Martens, Patricia J, Chateau, Dan, Burchill, Charles
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3664365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22753529
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2012-040389