Rabid 4-Foot Beaver Mauled 13-Year-Old at Maryland Park, Triggering 3 Attack Scare
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 17
Rabid 4-Foot Beaver Mauled 13-Year-Old at Maryland Park, Triggering 3 Attack Scare
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 17
Summary
Dominick Cebula, 13, is recovering after Sept. 4 surgery to repair a severed finger nerve caused by a July 26 rabid beaver attack at Cunningham Falls State Park.
The family said the 4-foot beaver charged him unprovoked while he was swimming, latched onto his chest, attacked again as he backed away, and left him needing an airlift to Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Doctors treated bite wounds and gave rabies post-exposure shots after officials euthanized the animal and confirmed it had rabies; paramedics had initially feared a punctured lung.
That attack was the first of 3 rabid beaver incidents tied to the park area, prompting closure of swimming access at Hunting Creek Lake; a 19-year-old fisherman and later a 10-year-old girl were also bitten.