Rabid beaver attacks boy fishing at New Jersey lake, prompting health officials to warn residents

A quiescent time of sportfishing turned chaotic erstwhile a rabid beaver charged retired of a New Jersey water and attacked an 8-year-old lad successful a frightening brushwood caught connected video.

The onslaught happened Sunday astatine Lake Henry successful Mahwah, wherever the carnal abruptly emerged from the h2o and lunged astatine the kid arsenic helium stood adjacent the shoreline, constabulary said.

Video of the incidental shows the lad trying to scramble up the slope to information arsenic the beaver chases him earlier biting him connected the thigh.

Other children past rushed successful to help, with 1 grabbing the carnal and throwing it backmost into the lake.

A tiny canine is besides seen connected video trying to fend disconnected the assertive beaver arsenic it moved erratically on the water’s edge.

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Police said the beaver charged the lad adjacent the shoreline. The beaver aboriginal tested affirmative for rabies. Health officials urged anyone who came successful interaction with the carnal to question contiguous aesculapian evaluation. (Michael Noonan via Storyful)

Authorities said the lad was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital successful Suffern, New York, for treatment.

Officials aboriginal confirmed the beaver tested affirmative for rabies.

A rabid beaver charged retired of Lake Henry successful Mahwah, New Jersey, and attacked an 8-year-old lad connected May 3, 2026. (Michael Noonan via Storyful)

The Mahwah Township Health Department said the carnal had interaction with aggregate radical implicit the weekend, and anyone who whitethorn person been exposed should question contiguous aesculapian evaluation.

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"Individuals who were bitten are presently receiving treatment," the section said, urging residents to study immoderate interaction with the animal.

A beaver chews connected a instrumentality successful the Boise River adjacent 32nd Street successful Garden City, Idaho, successful precocious April. (Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman/Tribune News Service)

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Health officials warned that rabies tin beryllium carried by immoderate warm-blooded carnal and advised the nationalist to debar wildlife.

The incidental remains nether investigation.