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“Residents of a Queens neighborhood face a strange threat,” AP said. Residents of New York’s Rego Park neighborhood say an aggressive squirrel jumped on them and bit them in recent weeks, WCBS reported Wednesday. Micheline Frederick showed a bruise on her wrist, where she said the squirrel landed on it and then sank her teeth into her fingers and hand. “We fight in the snow and there’s blood everywhere and my fingers are chewed and not let go,” Frederick said. “Eventually, it stopped and there was a lot of bloody mess.”
A photo Frederick says he took after the attack shows a bloody snow-covered path. “This was an MMA cage match! And I lost!” Two other neighbors told WCBS that the squirrel jumped on them, apparently unprovoked. “These squirrels are aggressively chasing people,” Vinati Singh said. “The traps have not yet caught squirrels. Small ones, such as squirrels, are rarely positive for rabies and are not known to have been transmitted to humans, according to the CDC.
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