On the night of October 4 to 5, a 3-year-old boy was bitten on the neck, nose and above the eye by a rat, while he was sleeping in the family apartment in downtown Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes).
Bites that could have been fatal. In the city center of Cannes, Rafael, 3 years old, was bitten by a rat on the night of October 4 to 5, while he was sleeping peacefully in his room.
“Our youngest, who is teething, was sleeping with my wife Imane and me, and Alan, his big brother, had also joined us, so that Rafa was left all alone in the room,” said his father Jean-Marc, interviewed by Nice-Matin.
It was then that the latter heard his son shout for the first time: “I got up to tell him to be quiet because he was going to wake up his little sister,” he continued.
The bite passed near the jugular
But after the third cry, the father returned to his little boy’s room and found him sitting on his bed: “I saw blood, I first thought he had scratched himself badly. “, remembered the father of the family.
The latter took his son in his arms to clean the wounds, but when he returned to the room to change the sheets, he found himself face to face with a rat. The rodent emerged from under the bed, then rushed under the sofa in the living room then towards the kitchen, chased by Jean-Marc.
The family confined the rat in the kitchen, where the foodstuffs were cleared to set traps: “It could have been dramatic, because the doctor said the bite went very close to the jugular,” the father reported. family. “My son could have choked on his blood, without even being able to alert us,” he worried.
The town hall dispatched the municipal hygiene and health service as well as a specialized company, which placed traps all around the Saint-Georges residence, as well as in the parking lot, through which the rats also pass to reach the conduits and enter through windows.
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