POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — Authorities in the Hudson Valley region of New York were searching Friday for an aggressive and possibly rabid coyote that bit a college student earlier in the week, officials said.
An email went out to students at Marist College in Poughkeepsie alerting them that a student was bitten on the leg early Tuesday by what was believed to be a coyote.
The student was assisted by campus security and treated for the bite.
A friend of the injured student told WABC-TV that his friend was recovering. “He’s going to classes, he is fine, he’s walking perfectly, he had to get rabies shots,” said Curtis Rodriguez, the student's friend.
The Dutchess County Department of Behavioral and Community Health issued an advisory on Wednesday, alerting area residents that “an aggressive coyote was observed on Marist’s campus."
The county health officials said Poughkeepsie police were working with the state Department of Environmental Conservation to locate and trap the coyote and test it for rabies.
A spokesperson for Marist College said the search for the coyote was ongoing Friday.
According to the county health advisory, aggressive coyotes have been observed at several locations around Poughkeepsie and Hyde Park between September 2022 and this month.
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