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So sad. A California teacher died of rabies after she was bitten by a bat in her classroom. “She was trying to scoop it up...She didn’t want to harm it.”

Only 1-3 human rabies cases are reported in the U.S. each year. Rabies is mostly found in bats, raccoons, skunks and foxes. Bites from these high-risk animals should be treated prophylactically at the time of the bite. By the time symptoms develop weeks later, it’s too late.

Btw, prophylaxis for bites involving