About 7-8 years ago I woke up in my cottage in the wilderness in the dark to find a bat inside the house. I turned on the lights and got it out a window. Later I discovered that they were nesting in our wood stove that we hadn’t been using all that summer.
A couple years later, I read a news story of how someone got infected by rabies from a bat bite they didn’t know they got in their sleep. … and this was in Canada where rabies is rare!
Then I read up on what rabies was, infection rates, incubation time, etc
I’ve been worried ever since that some day, I’ll start developing the late stages of a rabies infection
Cute … but I’m deathly afraid of bats now
About 7-8 years ago I woke up in my cottage in the wilderness in the dark to find a bat inside the house. I turned on the lights and got it out a window. Later I discovered that they were nesting in our wood stove that we hadn’t been using all that summer.
A couple years later, I read a news story of how someone got infected by rabies from a bat bite they didn’t know they got in their sleep. … and this was in Canada where rabies is rare!
Then I read up on what rabies was, infection rates, incubation time, etc
I’ve been worried ever since that some day, I’ll start developing the late stages of a rabies infection