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Their stats come from county health offices all over our country. Docs and hospitals are required to report dog bites. County animal control tracks all dogs by breed licensed in their home counties. Usually all reported information is forwarded to the county health department who reports it up the chain.
My numbers are not based on the media or on the wives tails of pit bull owners. I have been officially challenged on these numbers many times and they always hold up.
Statistical data does not lie. Statistical data does not get distorted because of bias.
Please stick to supportable facts. Provable truth or properly gathered statistical data count. The “I feel, I know” stuff doesn’t float.

None of these studies have any science behind them.
The dogbite.org study was put together by a magazine editor based on media reports. Kind of reminds me of the climate change studies I see. Your other site states that a breed specific ban would be impractical. It looks like this study is also flawed by the inaccuracy of reporting. Doctors cannot tell what type of breed bit a person by looking at the bite. “Usually all reported information is forwarded” sounds like bad science to me.
I think dog bite fatality's are a terrible thing. Banning a single breed will be followed up by banning the next killer dog on the list if this were to actually work.
I have trained dogs also and have 15 years of personal experience with the breed. I feel that owner responsibility, educating the public and cleaning up our neighborhoods is actually something that would work. Not more unenforceable laws. Here are some sites that go more in this direction. It sounds like they would work better than a breed ban. nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com;atts.org;cdc.gov;chuko.org;ect.

Docs and hospitals are required to report dog bites.

And there couldn't be a more unreliable source for accurate identification of the breed involved. It isn't the fault of doctors dutifully dictating their summaries, but the situation in which they are placed.

You have your experience and I have mine. Once an identification is made anywhere on a medical history, it is *very hard to get it changed even when the error is known.

No one cares.