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Worldwide, about 50,000 people die from rabies every year, with most of those deaths occurring in developing nations where they don't have rabies vaccination programs for dogs.

The bat was the sixth positive rabies case in Polk County this year. Nationally, there are about 7,000 cases of rabies every year, according to the CDC.

In the U.S. rabies is usually passed along through a bite by an infected wild animal such as a bat, raccoon, skunk, wolf, coyote, bobcat, ferret or fox, but about three quarters of rabies cases are from bats, CDC officials say.

2 posted on 11/19/2008 2:25:33 PM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])

5 posted on 11/19/2008 2:58:29 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)