Min Namgung was walking with her boyfriend Friday night on Mountfort Street near Fenway Park when, she says, she felt a sharp pain in her left foot.

“The next thing I know, I feel a sharp pain in my leg, and I look down and I’m bleeding,” Namgung told CBS News Boston . “I see something scurry along, and of course it’s a f— rat.”

Namgung, 23, was wearing Birkenstock sandals, she said, and was bitten on the back of her ankle.

She speculated in a TikTok video that she may have “accidentally stepped on” the rat’s tail, which caused it to bite her.

She rushed to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and received the first of many tetanus and rabies shots, she said.

“I thought it was like a bunny, it was so big,” she told CBS News Boston . “My boyfriend pulls his phone out, puts the fl

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