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lionkingcmslcourtsey of the KYW 1060 News Radio website.
Rabid Bat Bites Hand That Helps It
KYW's David Madden
Philadelphia health officials say a woman, who works at an animal refuge, found the bat Wednesday near 15th and Pine Streets in Center City. The unidentified woman decided to take the mammal to a wildlife center to see if it could be helped. City Health Commissioner John Domzalski says things went well -- at first:
"It wasn't until she got the animal back to the refuge where she was making the transfer...to the cage in which the animal would then be held at the refuge that there was a slip-up of some sort, and the bat bit the handler."
The bat turned out to be rabid, so the woman had to get rabies shots, but fewer than normal, since she'd already been immunized for rabies because of her work. Rabies is almost always fatal in humans if not caught before it reaches the central nervous system.
Rabies doesn't surface that often in the city; there've been just 43 cases reported in the last 16 years.
Rabid Bat Bites Hand That Helps It
KYW's David Madden
Philadelphia health officials say a woman, who works at an animal refuge, found the bat Wednesday near 15th and Pine Streets in Center City. The unidentified woman decided to take the mammal to a wildlife center to see if it could be helped. City Health Commissioner John Domzalski says things went well -- at first:
"It wasn't until she got the animal back to the refuge where she was making the transfer...to the cage in which the animal would then be held at the refuge that there was a slip-up of some sort, and the bat bit the handler."
The bat turned out to be rabid, so the woman had to get rabies shots, but fewer than normal, since she'd already been immunized for rabies because of her work. Rabies is almost always fatal in humans if not caught before it reaches the central nervous system.
Rabies doesn't surface that often in the city; there've been just 43 cases reported in the last 16 years.
