Saturday June 19 4:14 PM ET Woman Dies After Fox Attack ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. (AP) - A 79-year-old woman who fought off a rabid fox in April by holding onto the animal for 12 hours until help arrived has died. Lucy Dover lived at a Zephyrhills nursing home following her release from a hospital two weeks after the April 5 attack. Her son, David Dover, 57, said it was unclear how much the injuries from the fox attack contributed to her death on Thursday. ``She never really got totally better,'' he said. ``It's tough when you're that age to come back from that much trauma.'' Mrs. Dover had stepped outside her mobile home in Hernando County, some 45 miles north of Tampa, to smoke a cigarette when a red fox attacked, repeatedly biting and clawing her. She fell to the ground, breaking her hip. The fox kept attacking. Despite her injuries, the 5-foot-2 woman grabbed and subdued the 15-pound animal in what turned out to be an all-night struggle, authorities said.