According to Washington, DC news stories in t, an 83 year old woman was attacked by a rabid beaver while swimming in Fairfax, VA.
In a horror movie, a shark or an oversized barracuda might attack an unsuspecting swimmer, but in Fairfax County it was a 35-pound rabid beaver that drove an 83-year-old woman out of the water screaming.
The woman was swimming early Tuesday evening in Lake Barcroft, a 135-acre private lake in a neighborhood near Bailey’s Crossroads, when a rabid beaver attacked, latching on to her and biting her several times.
This was the second attack this year. Two girls were attacked in July. The woman was brought to a nearby hospital and administered treatment for rabies.
The Post reports:
During the struggle, the beaver took a bite out of her left calf, nearly bit off her thumb, and left puncture wounds all over her arms and legs....it wouldn’t stop.Rabies is more common in the summer.
