Eight-Year-Old Boy Needed Surgery To Save His Eyesight After Magpie Attack

An eight-year-old boy was rushed to hospital�to save his eyesight following a horrifying magpie attack�while on his way to school.

Cameron Nielsen from Gladstone, Queensland�has had to undergo surgery to save his eyesight after he was�viciously attacked by a magpie in�what wildlife experts have called one of the worst magpie attacks they’ve ever seen.

Cameron’s�mother, Skye Nielsen, told Daily Mail Australia that the magpie�managed to pierce through her son’s eyelid and scratch his eyeball. “It’s went through his eyelid and scratched his eyeball across his pupil and onto the white area – it’s not deep, but long,” she said.

Ms Nielsen said she picked Cameron up from his school after they called her and told her he had been attacked. A�few hours later, she said that Cameron was complaining that he couldn’t see properly and was ‘sitting in his bed with a pillow over his face.’

The boy�was immediately taken to Brisbane’s Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital where he�underwent urgent surgery. Ms Nielsen said she’s thankful that Cameron can now see properly. “He’s fine and back to his normal self but we have to give him eye-drops constantly,” she said.

Ms Nielsen said she was shocked that a magpie had done this to her son and said she had never before heard of such a violent attack.

Magpies, particularly the males, are known to swoop at people to protect their nests and offspring during Spring, usually from July to November.

Source:�Dailymail.co.uk

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