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Woman Getting Rabies Treatments After Animal Attack

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Dave Lucas

Published June 20, 2015 at 10:37 AM EDT

A Queensbury woman is undergoing rabies treatments after she was attacked by a woodchuck while watering the flowers outside her upstate New York home.

The woman was attacked Wednesday morning on her front lawn - according to the Post-Star, she saw the animal charging at her and ran for her front door, stumbled, the woodchuck bit her shin, then she distracted it and was able to get back inside her home.

Authorities are on the lookout, as the town's animal control officer suspects rabies based on the woodchuck's behavior.

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Dave Lucas

Dave Lucas is WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief. Born and raised in Albany, he’s been involved in nearly every aspect of local radio since 1981. Before joining WAMC, Dave was a reporter and anchor at WGY in Schenectady. Prior to that he hosted talk shows on WYJB and WROW, including the 1999 series of overnight radio broadcasts tracking the JonBenet Ramsey murder case with a cast of callers and characters from all over the world via the internet. In 2012, Dave received a Communicator Award of Distinction for his WAMC news story "Fail: The NYS Flood Panel," which explores whether the damage from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee could have been prevented or at least curbed. Dave began his radio career as a “morning personality” at WABY in Albany.

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