Possibly rabid otter attacks triathlete

Rabid otters are not rare but this was apparently an unusually savage attack.  In Minnesota, a woman training for an ironman triathlon was attacked by an otter and taken to the hospital. According to the NYDaily News:

One of the normally peaceful mammals savaged her back, legs and feet 25 times, forcing the 33-year-old to get rabies shots, the Star Tribune reported.
"It just kept coming after me," she said. "You never knew where it was going to bite next."
Prudhomme was preparing for an upcoming triathlon in the lake near Duluth with a friend last Wednesday. She wore a wetsuit over her swimsuit, but the otter was able to tear through it, leaving bites in her flesh as deep as two inches.

Two years ago Florida was the site of multiple rabid otter attacks.