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California Teacher Dies of Rabies After Being Bitten by Bat Inside Classroom
KSBW ^ | Nov 29, 2024 | Jack Orleans

Posted on 11/30/2024 7:38:24 PM PST by nickcarraway

An art teacher at Bryant Middle School in southern Merced County, died last week of rabies.

It's presumed Leah Seneng got rabies from a bat that had entered her classroom.

Seneng told a friend that she noticed the bat in her classroom around mid-October.

According to the California Department of Public Health, one of the most common sources of rabies in humans is from bats.

The CDPH is warning the public not to handle bats, as bites often go unnoticed.

They also warn you to wash the affected areas if you touch a bat and to seek emergency care if bitten.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: bat; rabies; salinas
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1 posted on 11/30/2024 7:38:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
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From what I have heard, it is 99.9% fatal but the vaccine is 99.9% effective.


2 posted on 11/30/2024 7:41:59 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: nickcarraway

Yesterday’s thread: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4281543/posts


3 posted on 11/30/2024 7:45:32 PM PST by TexasGator (/')
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To: crusty old prospector

Bats floppi g aroun in daylight are 99.99% possibility of being rabid.


4 posted on 11/30/2024 7:46:24 PM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: nickcarraway
Sad. I have heard California has its fair share of bats.


5 posted on 11/30/2024 7:46:46 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: nickcarraway
She tried to save the bat.

Maybe she wanted to make bat soup. She looks like a weirdo.

6 posted on 11/30/2024 7:47:17 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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Calif. art teacher, 60, dies of rabies after getting bitten by bat in classroom: ‘She didn’t wanna harm it’

11/29/2024 9:19:07 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 52 replies
NY Post ^ | Nov. 28, 2024, 6:43 p.m. ET | Matt Troutman

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4281543/posts


7 posted on 11/30/2024 7:48:31 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

That’s a moonbat, different species. Only acts rabid.


8 posted on 11/30/2024 7:52:46 PM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
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To: crusty old prospector

“the vaccine is 99.9% effective.”

If administered before onset of symptoms.


9 posted on 11/30/2024 7:53:50 PM PST by TexasGator (/')
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To: nickcarraway

More info here:
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, 12:19:07 PM by BenLurkin
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4281543/posts


10 posted on 11/30/2024 7:55:25 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t go around touchin’ any bats so I think I’m probably okay...

BTW, who touches bats for God’s sake?


11 posted on 11/30/2024 8:00:19 PM PST by Bullish (Socialism is a weed that blooms into communism, the tyranny that strangles liberty.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Bad Bats.


12 posted on 11/30/2024 8:01:05 PM PST by Bullish (Socialism is a weed that blooms into communism, the tyranny that strangles liberty.)
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To: Valpal1

Several years ago, I found my kids messing around with a bat in the day. They denied touching it but later said that when they petted it, it went “Grrrr.” They were around five years old. I killed the bat with a limb nearby and put it in a ziplock bag. We sent it off to the state for testing but they said that the individual who had killed the bat ruined the portion of the brain that they needed for testing. They all had to have rabies shots.


13 posted on 11/30/2024 8:05:56 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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14 posted on 11/30/2024 8:13:16 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Bullish

We had one get in through the chimney. Cats used to watch fireplace like it was a tv. Bats had a nest up there. We put a screen over the top and ended that.


15 posted on 11/30/2024 8:17:55 PM PST by alternatives?
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16 posted on 11/30/2024 8:22:06 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: crusty old prospector
They all had to have rabies shots.

I have done that a time or 3. I just try to avoid all animals these days. I heard, in the past, people used to get about 13 shots in the stomach. I don’t know that to be true or not, but I only had to get 4 shots, all in the arm.

17 posted on 11/30/2024 8:29:47 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: nickcarraway

earlier on FR:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4281543/posts


18 posted on 11/30/2024 8:38:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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That is how these were. Maybe 15 years ago.


19 posted on 11/30/2024 8:53:37 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: crusty old prospector

“Maybe 15 years ago.”

Maybe 40 years ago.


20 posted on 11/30/2024 9:18:00 PM PST by TexasGator (/')
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