NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 13-year-old girl from New York became the 16th shark-bite victim of this swimming season when she was bitten on the back of her right leg and shin while in waist-deep water just after noon Tuesday, the Volusia County Beach Patrol Beach. TV's WESH 2 News of Orlando reported physicians who stitched her up in the emergency room at Bert Fish Medical Center removed a partial shark's tooth from her leg. “She says she was just wading in the water,” said Bert Fish spokesman Garry Mac. “She was in the water with a relative, and all of a sudden, she just felt the bite, looked down and immediately ran to shore.” This was only the second of 16 shark attacks away from the South Jetty area where surfers and sharks clash more often. Earlier this summer, a small boy was bitten by a tiny shark just north of the Flagler Avenue approach, the same area where the latest victim was bitten, the Beach Patrol said. Volusia County had 21 shark-bite incidents in 2001, the most recorded in one year in a hundred years. -----------