Frederick health officials seek dog owner after woman bitten downtown
A Frederick County public-health notice reports an October 7 bite near East South and Market streets and seeks the owner of a dog described as a pit bull mix for rabies-observation follow-up.
Incident summary
The Frederick County Health Department reported that a woman was bitten by a dog near East South Street and Market Street in downtown Frederick around 6:15 p.m. on October 7. The department described a roughly 30–40-pound brown dog with a white face as a “Pit-Bull mix type dog.” The owner left without exchanging contact information, and authorities sought the owner so Animal Control could verify the dog remained healthy 10 days after the incident. The public notice did not document injury severity, whether the woman already received medical care, any confirmed rabies infection, or a final owner/animal disposition.
The official October 8 notice requested information to locate the dog and owner. It did not report a criminal charge, citation, adjudication, impoundment, owner identification or confirmed rabies finding. BiteDB does not infer culpability or dog rabies from an open public-health notice.
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Primary record used by BiteDB
Frederick County Health Department reported that a woman was bitten near East South St. and Market St. on October 7 around 6:15 p.m., described the animal as a 30–40 lb brown-and-white “Pit-Bull mix type dog,” and sought its owner for post-bite public-health follow-up.
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What BiteDB does not infer
The dog’s breed is an attributed public-health description, not independently confirmed by genetic evidence. The notice does not establish injury severity, treatment, confirmed rabies exposure, charges, ownership or final animal-control disposition.