OKLAHOMA CITY ( KFOR ) — A youth soccer coach and her team say they’ve been experiencing some intense symptoms after being bitten by mosquitoes at an Oklahoma City park, and they aren’t the only ones. Medical experts say their symptoms aren’t normal.
If evening after evening on grassy soccer fields has taught Laney Singleton and the youth soccer team she coaches one thing: it’s that they know their bug bites.
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“I mean, we’ve all grown up in Oklahoma,” Singleton said. “All these girls and myself.”
It’s why they can confidently say, whatever has been biting them at Lightning Creek Park lately, is no average mosquito.
“We’ve never experienced bites like this,” she said.
Singleton showed News 4 pictures of her hand, heavily swollen for several days after she says a mosquito bit her.
She said the pain felt more like what she’d expect from a bee sting, rather than a mosquito.