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    40 percent of children who drown do so in “kiddie pools”

    rokurBy rokurJune 21, 2011Updated:June 21, 2011No Comments1 Min Read
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    Scary stuff, researchers for the online journal Pediatrics report nearly 40 percent of the 209 children who drowned from 2001 to 2009 in the USA did so in small, inflatable “kiddie pools”. The majority (94%) involved children younger than 5 years, 73% occurred in the child’s own yard and 81% occurred during the summer months.

    “Because portable pools are generally small, inexpensive and easy to use, parents often do not think about the potential dangers these pools present,” said Dr. Gary Smith, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio, senior author of the study

    Drowning study prompts urgency for swim lessons: MyFoxTAMPABAY.com

    Via myfoxtampabay.com, ABC News (with another video), NY Daily News (with another video), CNN (with another video)

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    Production engineer and certified swim coach. Full-time IT consultant, spare-time swimming aficionado. 2 sons, 2 daughters and a wife. President of the Faroe Islands Swimming Association. Likes to run :-)

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