NYC officials try to help people caught the camera eating dead rat

Graphic warning!

New York City officials come into action to help the man who is caught on video eating a dead rat because they think his health can be in danger, TMZ has learned.

A spokesperson for the Town Hall in Manhattan tells us … They contact the health department to help find the Niet -Echtened man who was filmed on the rodent while he was sitting on a sidewalk in the Bronx.

An eyewitness shot the images on Saturday and placed it on social media, so that everyone who saw it shocked, including the woman who filmed it. That woman could be heard while the man bit the rodent.

Kathleen Corradi, director of NYC of rodent mitigation, warns that rats can be harmful to your health because they can transport pathogens that are organisms that cause diseases.

She also says that rodents can wear ectoparasites, leeches that infect the outer layer of your skin.

Moreover, Corradi asks that people stay away from rats and their urine and droppings where possible, while also wearing personal protective equipment when they come across a dead rodent.