Animal Bites in New Jersey. Almost all animals can bite your child, teens, or adult that can injure, infect, or whatever harm to them.  Other animals like mosquitoes and some insects can harm without teeth by sucking blood using proboscis. Insects have mandibles that they use to bite or even harm your children, teens, and adults.  Insects use hardened jaws containing teeth so one way or another they can harm you.

It may be your pets, wild animals, farm animals or any kind under animal kingdom can injure you and eventually make you sick. It really matters to understand or know harmful animals especially those with rabies, poisons, or any deadly effects that weaken your child immune system.

Among of the injuries from animal bites are wounds, scratches, lacerations, punctures, and tearing of tissue or any other physical injuries that a bite may cause.

On the other hand, insect bites can cause pain, itching, inflammation, and severe allergic reactions.  Take note that many diseases are communicable and transmissible by bites.

Animal Bites in New Jersey

If you need to check the cases of animal bites specifically rabies, you can visit New Jersey Department of Health for statistics.

As of this writing there are 18 cases in New Jersey out of 430 specimens tested. This is 2025 alone and cases may be incrementing.

However, there are still other kinds of animal bites as mentioned at the beginning of this post. What about animal bites cases from insects? This is massive cases if ever because there are still unreported bites.

If you get animal bites go to urgent care immediately but if it is life threatening, please call 911!

Go to these locations closest to you:

Home remedies for animal bites

It is not recommended to do it yourself if you are not aware about the nature of the bites. However, if it just a mild bite you can do some home remedies before the bites become serious.

Stop bleeding, wash the wound, applying antibacterial ointment, bandage, are some of the DIY you can do at home. However, you must have the courage to do it. Panics and fears can interfere with these home remedies. Thus, a doctor is still the best to help.

TIPS AND WARNINGS:

• No matter how friendly your pet is or an animal is, always be careful specially those young kids!
• Urgent Care treats animal bites so go to walk in clinic nearby as soon as you got bitten. You may not know if there are poison, rabies or whatever until a doctor diagnose it.
• Let your pets be vaccinated and even your children, teens, and adults.
• World Health Organization has some quick facts and tips about treating animal bites and you can read it for your perusal. However, a doctor is still the best to treat by visiting any urgent care or walk in clinic nearby.
• Home remedies and do it yourself tricks for animal bites are not recommended especially when you are not sure if there are rabies, poisons, or whatsoever.
• PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE is still recommended by being careful all the time, putting some protections or repellents, and let your pets be vaccinated.
• Stay away from wild animals because you never know when it will bite you. Wild animals are aggressive.