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While Florida is known for shark bites, incidents are about average for the year and declined nationally in 2024.

Shark bites are extremely rare and most are cases of mistaken identity in low-visibility water.

Some fast action and skilled surgeons may have saved the leg of an 8-year-old boy who was while snorkeling off Key Largo on Labor Day, according to authorities.

“[He] made it through surgery last night,” Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay told the Miami Herald. “I understand that they have saved his leg.”

The boy was bitten about 3:24 p.m. and airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said in a .

While Florida is considered the Shark Bite Capital of the United States and other people have been bitten this year, incid

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