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Kelly Rissman

NYC shark bite victim needed five surgeries and was left with ‘permanent disability’

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The woman who was attacked by a shark at a beach in New York City earlier this month has already endured five surgeries – and will require more.

Tatyana Koltunyuk, 65, was bitten on 7 August, an incident that will require years of “intense physical therapy and close medical monitoring, during which time she will have significantly limited mobility,” her daughter Darya Koltunyuk wrote on a GoFundMe page. She added that the injury “has left her with a permanent disability.”

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