A 10-year-old boy was bitten by a shark in Daytona Beach Shores on Wednesday afternoon. 
 
 The boy, who is visiting from Georgia, was in chest-deep water when he was bitten on the calf and suffered minor lacerations. 
 
 "I heard him start yelling as we were walking back out and he said something bit him,” said the victim’s father, Kenneth Wood. 
 
 The boy was treated on scene and wasn’t taken to the hospital, according to Volusia County Beach Safety Ocean Rescue. 
 
 “I was scared there for a while. Now I know he’s all right," Wood said. 
 
 The beach remained open in spite of the incident. 
 
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 This is the fourth reported shark bite in Volusia County this year. Four bites have also been reported in Brevard County. 
 
 "We will be seeing more shark attacks in years ahead because there’s more of us. We're simply flooding sharks out of their own environment,” said Dr. George Burgess, the director of the Florida program for shark research. 
 
 In 2014 Florida led the nation with shark attacks with a total of 28, Burgess said. So 11 so far this year isn’t abnormal. 
 
 “We're all worried about them being man eaters. But when you think about it, the ratio each year, the number of humans that are killed by sharks versus the number of sharks killed by human beings is 10 million to 1,” Burgess said. 
 
 He also said the best way to avoid being a victim of shark attacks is to stay in groups while in the water and not to swim near the inlet where many other are putting out bait while fishing. 
 
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 A 10-year-old boy suffered minor injuries when he was bitten by a shark Wednesday in Daytona Beach Shores, Florida. He is the second 10-year-old to be attacked in Florida in a week and at least the fourth person to have been attacked in Volusia County this year, authorities said. 
 
 The boy, who wasn't identified, was bitten on the calf as he swam in chest-deep waters just after 1 p.m. ET, said Tamra Marris, a spokeswoman for Volusia County Beach Safety/Ocean Rescue. A lifeguard responded, and the boy was treated at the scene for lacerations on his leg without having to go to a hospital. 
 
 The beach safety agency told NBC station WESH of Orlando that beaches would remain open. 
 
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 Another 10-year-old boy is recovering from what authorities called "significant injuries" after he was attacked last week off Cocoa Beach, about 60 miles south. 
 
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 Wednesday's attack was the fourth reported this year in Volusia County, which was labeled the shark bite capital of the world earlier this year by the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida. 
 
 But while the rate of shark attacks may appear to be on the rise, data suggest that perception reflects better reporting and an increase in the number of people involved in water activities, not an increase in aggressiveness by sharks. 
 
 There were 72 reported attacks on humans around the world in 2014, the shark attack center said — three fewer than in 2013. ||||| Emergency officials on Monday took to boats and helicopters in a hunt for the shark they say attacked two youths in waist-deep water Sunday in coastal North Carolina, leaving them both severely injured with lost limbs. 
 
 The boy, 16, and girl, 12, were hurt in separate attacks reported about 90 minutes apart in Oak Island, a seaside town about 30 miles south of Wilmington. 
 
 Multiple media outlets have identified the girl as Kiersten Yow, of Archdale, and Hunter Treschel, from Colorado Springs, Colo. Officials said the girl was vacationing with her family while the boy was visiting relatives in the area. 
 
 In the wake of the town’s first shark attack since the 1970s, Oak Island emergency personnel combed the beach and planned to extend their search for the shark into Tuesday, said Town Manager Tim Holloman. 
 
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 After Sunday’s attacks, bystanders reported spotting a 7-foot shark in the water, but emergency officials did not see any from a helicopter, he said. 
 
 The incidents prompted officials to cancel a surfer’s camp scheduled at the beach this week but didn’t stop them from keeping the entire beach open because “there’s no way for us to control” sharks appearing near shore, said Oak Island Fire Chief Chris Anselmo. 
 
 “We have 9 miles of beach and more entry points that we can man,” he said. “What we can do is just advise beach-goers to be careful if they do enter the water. We can’t stop them from entering.” 
 
 The town doesn’t have any signs that warn swimmers about sharks, and there are no lifeguards stationed at the beach. 
 
 “Right now, we don’t have any way to fund those types of extra positions in the summertime,” Holloman said. “The … townspeople have not mentioned it being an issue. Even in this particular instance, I’m not sure it would have made an appreciable difference.” 
 
 Last week, a 13-year-old girl on a boogie board suffered lacerations on her foot after a shark attacked her in Ocean Isle Beach, a small town about 30 miles south of Oak Island. There’s speculation that her attack might be related to Sunday’s, but so far, “there’s been no serious correlations,” Holloman said. 
 
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 Sunday’s first attack, on Yow, happened at about 4:40 p.m. near the Ocean Crest Fishing Pier, officials said. She lost part of her arm and suffered a leg injury. In the second attack, reported at about 5:50 p.m. near the 55th Street beach access – about 3 miles northeast of the fishing pier – Treschel lost his left arm, which was severed just below his shoulder, officials said. 
 
 The boy had “extensive hemorrhaging,” and officials struggled to control his bleeding, said Brunswick County EMS Director Brian Watts. If not for the intervention of bystanders, including one of the boy’s friends, “we would have had a really different outcome,” he said. 
 
 Both victims were about 20 yards offshore in waist-deep water when they were attacked, officials said. The victims were airlifted to New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, hospital spokeswoman Martha Harlan said. They had surgery, and their condition has progressed from fair to good, she said. 
 
 Dr. Borden Hooks said the boy’s left arm was amputated above the elbow after it had been bitten through. He said the girl’s family asked that her injuries not be discussed. 
 
 Hooks said it was too early to know the long-term outcome of the cases. “I can only tell you that they’ve made a lot of advances in prosthetic limbs,” he said. 
 
 Both victims remained hospitalized Monday night. Efforts to reach family members were unsuccessful. Treschel’s mother issued a statement, thanking doctors, emergency room staff, police and bystanders who helped her son. 
 
 Witness accounts 
 
 Greg Gallihugh, a fisherman from Charlottesville, Va., saw the attack on the girl from the Ocean Crest pier. When a crowd gathered on the beach, he thought at first someone had been pulled from the surf after drowning. 
 
 He had seen a school of sharks – big ones, maybe bull sharks – feeding around the pier Sunday. Water conditions were murky. 
 
 “Maybe it’s one rogue bull shark,” said Gallihugh, who has been coming to Oak Island to fish for 15 years. “Every now and then you get one.” 
 
 Buck Clark, a contractor from Crozet, Va., saw the commotion on the beach where the girl was attacked. 
 
 “It probably didn’t know what it was biting,” Clark said. 
 
 Children were riding boogie boards in the surf all around the area and the shark might have mistaken them in the turbidity of the surf as turtles, which sharks feed on. He has been fishing in the area for years and has seen hundreds of sharks in the waters off Oak Island. 
 
 “There’s always sharks here,” he said. “But no shark attacks.” 
 
 Hubert Reaves, born and raised in nearby Bolivia, has been coming to the shore for all his 69 years. 
 
 “I’ve never heard of anything like this,” he said. 
 
 “We can’t control this ocean,” Reaves said. “We don’t know what’s out there.” 
 
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 What kind of shark was it? 
 
 Officials would not say what kind of shark attacked the youths, or if they believe it was the same one. One expert said he believes a lone bull shark attacked the teens. 
 
 “There’s not a lot of cases of these kinds of bites occurring in such proximity, both time and distance,” said Dan Abel, a professor of marine science at Coastal Carolina University in Myrtle Beach. “My best guess is that this is a single shark.” 
 
 He theorized that a bull shark – a “robust-looking … typical shark-looking beast” indigenous to warmer waters and known for their aggressive bite – might be responsible. 
 
 “They’ve got very sharp, serrated teeth that are good for shearing, unfortunately,” he said. “They do penetrate into fresh water in parts of the developing world where people are in freshwater fishing or even washing clothes. They will periodically bite people.” 
 
 Despite Sunday’s incidents, Abel said shark attacks are infrequent and “low likelihood events.” Thirty-four shark attacks were reported in North Carolina between 2001 and 2014, according to the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History. 
 
 Unusual event 
 
 On Monday, Oak Island’s beaches were active, but few people were venturing beyond the toe-dipping range. 
 
 A sheriff’s helicopter flew sorties up and down the beach, but there were no fins to be seen in the water, beyond a school of dolphin characteristically bobbing offshore at midday. 
 
 There was plenty of chumming going on, but by nature – a school of bluefish was feeding on bait fish around the Ocean Crest pier and seabirds were nipping the leftovers. Sunday’s big sharks apparently moved north with the current, fishermen said. 
 
 But the attacks attracted something usually seen in Oak Island only when the big storms hit – TV crews from CNN and The Weather Channel. 
 
 Mitzi York, executive director of the Brunswick County Tourism Development Authority, doubts widespread news of the attacks will hinder tourism. 
 
 “I think a lot of folks understand that this is a highly … extraordinary incident,” she said. “It’s certainly not that commonplace.” 
 
 The Associated Press contributed.
– Volusia County, Fla., was declared the "shark bite capital of the world" this year by the International Shark Attack File, according to NBC, and it doesn't seem to be in danger of losing the title. A 10-year-old boy was in chest-deep water at Daytona Beach Shores yesterday when he was bitten on the calf by a shark, WESH reports. Officials say the boy was treated for lacerations at the scene and didn't need to go to a hospital. He was the county's fourth shark victim of the year and the second in the space of a week: Another 10-year-old boy was severely injured last week in a shark attack at Cocoa Beach, around 60 miles south of the latest attack, NBC reports. This is the 11th attack in the state so far this year, which isn't an exceptionally high number, shark expert Dr. George Burgess tells WESH, noting that "the number of humans that are killed by sharks versus the number of sharks killed by human beings is 10 million to one." He advises swimmers worried about sharks to stay in groups and avoid areas where fishermen put out bait. Two young people lost limbs in shark attacks in Oak Island, NC, on Sunday and the town is considering banning shark fishing to protect swimmers from sharks attracted by the bait, the AP reports. (A 16-year-old boy who lost his left arm in Sunday's attack says he won't let it ruin his life.)