Boy Attacked by Shark Likely Has Brain Injury
Doctors said that the 8-year-old boy who survived a shark attack in the Florida surf is in a coma and likely suffered a brain injury.
Jessie Arbogast appears, however, to have avoided potentially fatal brain swelling, Dr. Tim Livingston said. The boy, he added, did not seem to be worsening.
“He likely has suffered a brain injury and that very well could be significant for him,” he said. “We do have evidence that his brain is not functioning correctly.”
Surgeons reattached Jessie’s right arm after it was bitten off Friday by a 7-foot bull shark in the surf at the Gulf Islands National Seashore.
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