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Calif. art teacher, 60, dies of rabies after getting bitten by bat in classroom: ‘She didn’t wanna harm it’
NY Post ^ | Nov. 28, 2024, 6:43 p.m. ET | Matt Troutman

Posted on 11/29/2024 9:19:07 AM PST by BenLurkin

The death of Leah Seneng, 60, last week was confirmed to be from the horrific disease by Fresno County health officials, according to the report.

Seneng had tried to save a bat she found lying in her classroom at Bryant Middle School in Dos Palos in mid-October, her dear friend Laura Splotch told the TV news outlet.

“I don’t know if she thought it was dead or what cause it was laying around her classroom and she was trying to scoop it up and take it outside,” Splotch told ABC30.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography
KEYWORDS: art; bat; bryantmiddle; california; fresnocounty; leahseneng; rabies; seneng
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1 posted on 11/29/2024 9:19:07 AM PST by BenLurkin
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A month after the winged creature’s bite, Seneng fell ill, the report said.

Apparently the fool also didn't want to get treatment either.

2 posted on 11/29/2024 9:21:41 AM PST by PGR88
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To: BenLurkin

I got biten by a bat. The shots weren’t too bad.


3 posted on 11/29/2024 9:23:51 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: BenLurkin

Art Teacher ?


4 posted on 11/29/2024 9:23:59 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: BenLurkin

She went to bat and struck out.


5 posted on 11/29/2024 9:24:23 AM PST by Round Earther
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To: BenLurkin

If a bat is out and in reach of humans in a school classroom during the day, chances are it is rabid. She should have called janitorial services to bring a net or better yet a shovel to dispatch the creature immediately.

However, with this incident, her students may have learned one of the most informative and useful science/biology/zoology lessons of the year.


6 posted on 11/29/2024 9:26:52 AM PST by CFW (uic)
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To: PGR88

It doesn’t even have to be a bite. People don’t realize that you don’t have to be bitten to contract rabies. It can come from just a scratch, or any contact of saliva with a sore or a mucous membrane without any breaking of skin.


7 posted on 11/29/2024 9:27:12 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: BenLurkin

Death by rabies a horrible way to die. But she begged for it..


8 posted on 11/29/2024 9:27:15 AM PST by libh8er
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To: central_va

I think a lot of people still think it’s the old giant needle to the abdomen. About 15 years ago my family of four had a potential exposure. The number is per size and weight. If I remember it was 19 shots over two or three session, between us. But regular shots, not some massive needle. Not horrible but rabies IS a particularly horrible was to go


9 posted on 11/29/2024 9:27:43 AM PST by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Jamestown1630

My grand told us as children of a girl she knew who got rabies. At the end she was so ill, the oral history, claim someone put a pillow over her face and smothered her to death. We are talking 1880’s.


10 posted on 11/29/2024 9:34:08 AM PST by mware
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To: BenLurkin

Many years ago my brother brought home a stray cat and my parents took it to the Vet for a check and found out it had Rabies and had it put to sleep , they did get a kitten at the Vet for him thought .


11 posted on 11/29/2024 9:41:29 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: BenLurkin

Man, tough way to go.


12 posted on 11/29/2024 9:41:45 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: BenLurkin

Now that’s a set of shots I would get with no problem.


13 posted on 11/29/2024 9:42:33 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: BenLurkin

Who the heck handles a wild animal with their bare, unprotected hands?!! Stupid paid a dividend.


14 posted on 11/29/2024 9:43:09 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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To: PGR88
Apparently the fool also didn't want to get treatment either.

Once symptoms show up, it's almost certainly too late. Only a dozen or so have survived using the Milwaukee protocol, and that's a fraction of the people treated with it.

15 posted on 11/29/2024 9:46:51 AM PST by null and void (Regarding the second Trump presidency, everyone who isn’t terrified is thankful!)
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To: BenLurkin

Seems as though ‘being rabid’ is a natural condition for most Bats.


16 posted on 11/29/2024 9:48:40 AM PST by lee martell
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To: BenLurkin

I had a pet bat when I was 5-6 years old. His name was Masterson.


17 posted on 11/29/2024 9:49:40 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: BenLurkin

Rabies is not the only thing that still exist in California.

Few realize PLAGUE still exist

https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/FactsAboutPlagueinCA.pdf


18 posted on 11/29/2024 9:49:59 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (My opinions are the result of 80 years of life, you may not like them but who cares.)
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To: mware

I notice that the woman in this story was put into a coma a few days before she died.

I know people who were exposed in a research setting. The treatment now is nothing like it used to be, and they all went through it easily. It certainly beats the possible alternative.


19 posted on 11/29/2024 9:50:52 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: BenLurkin
Teacher should have given that bat the Manu maneuver.Perez: A Tribute to Manu Ginobili, the NBA's Most Memorable Improv Act |  The Action Network

Then got shots like he did.

20 posted on 11/29/2024 9:51:32 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)
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