As doctors treated an 11-year-old Florida girl after a shark attack in Daytona Beach, they discovered the shark left behind a tooth in her leg.
Riley Breihan was playing on her boogie board when she was attacked twice on Wednesday. Strangers quickly came to her rescue and made sure she was rushed to the hospital, The Daily Mail reported.
She suffers from a bite mark on her lower leg but is recovering.
Of all the shark attacks in Florida, many have happened in Daytona Beach -- a location known for bull sharks. Still, it remains a popular location for surfers, three of which were attacked last Sunday in a string of multiple attacks this month.
Two weeks ago, a 17-year-old surfer was one of six who were bitten by sharks in Daytona, according to ABC News. She was bitten in the foot about three hours before two other surfers, aged 17 and 32, were bitten in the foot and ankle just a quarter of a mile away.
The following Saturday, three men suffered shark attacks at Poncet Inlet, located between Daytona Beach and New Smyrna Beach. Jason Valentine, 20, underwent hand surgery as his friends Jeff White, 20, and Dylan Feindt, 19, were treated for cuts on their feet.
George Burgess, director of The International Shark Attack File, explained the number of incidents involving surfers and sharks.
"It's an inlet," he said. "Schools of fish tend to congregate around the inlet and sharks, of course, are going to be found around schooling fishes."
ABC News reported that although the recent number of shark attacks are concerning beachgoers, the number of attacks are statistically declining. In the U.S., there were 51 shark attacks in 2000 yet only 37 have happened this year around the world.
Several reports of attacks have made headlines this summer, including the death of a 20-year-old German woman in Hawaii.
