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A man from Florida, USAwas injured following being attacked by a shark 1.8 meters long on a beach on the east coast, local media reported on Monday.
Volusia County authorities in central Florida came to the rescue of a man from Miami 24 years old who on Sunday followingnoon was doing surfing on a beach in New Smyrna Beach and was bitten on the foot by the shark.
The young man, who was not seriously injured and went to a local hospital on his own, said that shortly before being attacked he had seen the shark eat fish from a bait.
The incident is the second of its kind to occur in the county in a seven-day period and the fourth so far this year, according to local newspaper The Daytona Beach News-Journal.
Prior to Sunday’s attack, on July 3, a man from Daytona Beach The 28-year-old was surfing on a beach in New Smyrna Beach and, following falling into the water, was bitten on his left foot by a sharkAlthough the injury did not turn out to be serious.
In addition, last week Addison Bethea, a 17-year-old girl who had to have her leg amputated following being attacked by a 2.7-meter-long shark on a beach in northwestern Florida, was released from a Florida hospital. condition.
According to the International Shark Attack File, an entity linked to the University of Florida, this state is where most shark attacks on humans occur, although experts agree that these are generally extremely rare.
In 2021 there were 28 cases in Florida, which means 38% of the total that occurred that year worldwide, when a total of 73 unprovoked cases were registered, of which 9 were fatal, and 39 provoked.
The researchers do not rule out that the number of attacks will increase in view of the increase in people on the beaches following the decline of the covid-19 pandemic, as well as that these animals are increasingly prone to swimming in shallow waters.
