Frederick County seeks dog after Emmitsburg bite near Jubilee Foods
Frederick County health officials said a man was bitten near Jubilee Foods in Emmitsburg on October 1 and sought a brown-and-white male Pitbull mix type dog so its health could be verified for rabies follow-up.
Incident summary
The Frederick County Health Department said a man was bitten around 8 p.m. on October 1 on the sidewalk over the bridge near Jubilee Foods in Emmitsburg while involved in an altercation with a possibly unhoused individual. The department described that individual’s dog as a brown-and-white male Pitbull mix type dog wearing a blue harness. Officials were seeking the dog and owner so Animal Control could verify the animal remained healthy 10 days after the incident; if the owner could not be located, the victim would be advised to receive rabies post-exposure treatment. The notice did not publish the victim’s identity, detailed injury severity, treatment already received, or a final locating/quarantine outcome.
The Frederick County Health Department sought the dog and owner for Animal Control health verification after the bite. The reviewed notice did not announce a citation, criminal charge, dangerous-dog adjudication, impoundment, euthanasia order or civil finding. BiteDB does not infer legal culpability from the public-health notice.
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Frederick County Health Department said a man was bitten around 8 p.m. October 1 during an altercation on the sidewalk over the bridge near Jubilee Foods in Emmitsburg. The notice described the biting dog as a brown-and-white male Pitbull mix type dog wearing a blue harness and asked the public to help locate the dog and owner for a 10-day health verification.
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