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– Residents of a Queens neighborhood face a strange threat, the AP reports. Residents of the Rego Park neighborhood of New York City say an aggressive squirrel has jumped on them and bit them in recent weeks, WCBS reported Wednesday. Micheline Frederick pointed to a bruise on her wrist where she said the squirrel landed on her and then sank her teeth into her fingers and hand. “We’re fighting in the snow and there’s blood everywhere and my fingers are chewing and not letting go,” Frederick said. “It finally stopped and there I had a big bloody mess.”
A photo Frederick says he took after the attack shows a snow-covered road covered in blood. “It was an MMA cage match! And I lost!” He added.Two other neighbors told WCBS that the squirrel had jumped on them, apparently without provoking. “These squirrels are aggressively looking for people,” Vinati Singh said.the traps have not yet caught any squirrel. The reason for the aggressive behavior is unclear: small rodents such as squirrels rarely test positive for rabies and are not known to have transmitted it to humans, according to the CDC.
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