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Article: CPSC warns -- Pools are not the only drowning danger at home for kids; Data show other hazards cause more than 100 residential child drowning deaths annually.
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- May 24, 2002
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M2 PRESSWIRE-24 May 2002-US CPSC: CPSC warns -- Pools are not the only drowning danger at home for kids; Data show other hazards cause more than 100 residential child drowning deaths annually (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Young children are irresistibly drawn to water, and tragically, about 350 children under age 5 drown in swimming pools each year. But even if you don't have a pool, your young children may not be safe from drowning. At next month's World Congress on Drowning, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) will present data showing that about one-third as many children (an average of ...