{"id":11967,"date":"2026-05-06T19:45:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11967"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:45:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:45:50","slug":"rabid-beaver-attacks-8-year-old-boy-other-park-guests-at-new-jersey-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/05\/06\/rabid-beaver-attacks-8-year-old-boy-other-park-guests-at-new-jersey-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabid beaver attacks 8-year-old boy, other park guests at New Jersey lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/new-jersey\/beaver-attack-boy-nj-lake-positive-rabies\/6498722\/\">NBC News 4<\/a> A beaver that attacked multiple people, including at least one child, at a lake in New Jersey has tested positive for rabies, according to town officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police in Mahwah responded to Lake Henry around 6 p.m. Sunday after a report of an animal attack. An 8-year-old boy had been fishing from the shoreline when a beaver came out of the water and charged at him, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The boy tried to run away but tripped and fell. The semi-aquatic rodent bit the child on the upper thigh, according to police, as it continued to attack him. A family friend nearby came over to hit and kick the beaver several times before it eventually retreated, though it continued to circle the area, police said.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News 4 A beaver that attacked multiple people, including at least one child, at a lake in New Jersey has tested positive for rabies, according to town officials. Police in Mahwah responded to Lake Henry around 6 p.m. Sunday after a report of an animal attack. An 8-year-old boy had been fishing from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rabies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11968,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11967\/revisions\/11968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}