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Fox Attacks 6-Year-Old Girl, Woman in Worcester Neighborhood
Police said a second fox bite in the neighborhood left a woman with foot injuries and sent the animal for rabies testing.
- On Thursday, August 13, 2026, a fox attacked and bit Zena Bottom in the backyard of a Granite Street home in Worcester, Massachusetts, injuring her foot.
- A separate fox attack had occurred the evening before on nearby Jones Street, where 6-year-old Janessa Pagan-Williams was bitten around 8:50 p.m. Wednesday while riding her bike.
- Both victims were treated at local hospitals and received rabies vaccines as a precaution following the two attacks within a 24-hour period in the same neighborhood, according to the Worcester Police Department.
- Authorities located and euthanized the animal, which will undergo rabies testing; police stated there is no way to confirm whether the same fox was responsible for both attacks.
- Bottom warned neighbors to "watch out for your children and make sure that there's no wild animals around," as victims share safety guidance following the incidents.
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The problem is that he bit at least one person who tried to get too close to him. The state services therefore want to capture the animal to shoot him down and perform a rabies screening. The center of care L-irondelle is insurging against this decision.
2 hospitalized after being bitten by fox in Worcester
Two people, one of them a 6-year-old girl, said they were attacked and bitten by a fox in a Worcester neighborhood.Zena Bottom was playing with her grandchildren behind a house on Granite Street at about 8:45 a.m. Thursday when she encountered a fox, according to WCVB. The fox bit her foot before Bottom was able to get free.
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