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Below are some facts and general information about bats and rabies. This page was designed to educate people about the possibility of humans contracting rabies from human/bat contact.

This page should be used only as a tool to help people make desicions about bats and removal of colonies from homes. If you or someone you know may have been bitten by a bat or other wild animal you should seek immediate medical attention. If you have the animal keep it for rabies testing.

In the past fifty years most human deaths from rabies, in the United States, have been caused by rabies virus from bats. Awareness of this fact about bats and rabies can help people protect themselves, their families, and their pets.

When people think about bats, they often imagine things that are not true. Bats are not blind. Bats do not want to fly into people's hair or attack people. They are neither rodents nor birds. They will not suck your blood, and most do not have rabies.

Bats play a key role in the ecosystem around the globe, from rain forests to deserts. Bats eat large numbers of harmful insects every night. The best protection we can offer these unique mammals is to learn more about their habits and recognize the value of living safely with them.

Rabies is an infectious viral disease that affects the nervous system of humans and other mammals. People get rabies from the bite of an animal with rabies (a rabid animal). Any warm-blooded wild mammal, like a bat, coyote, fox, raccoon or skunk can have rabies and transmit it to humans.

Rabies virus infects the central nervous system, causing encephalopathy and ultimately death. Early symptoms of rabies in humans are nonspecific, consisting of fever, headache, and general malaise. As the disease progresses, neurological symptoms appear and may include insomnia, anxiety, confusion, slight or partial paralysis, excitation, hallucinations, agitation, hypersalivation, difficulty swallowing, and hydrophobia (fear of water). Death usually occurs within days of the onset of symptoms.

The number of rabies-related human deaths in the United States has declined from more than 100 annually at the turn of the twentieth century to one or two per year in the 1990's. Modern day treatment has proven nearly 100% successful. In the United States, human fatalities associated with rabies occur in people who fail to seek medical assistance, usually because they were unaware of their exposure.

If you find a bat in your bedroom or another member of the family's bedroom call your county's health department and/or animal control department for further information and testing of the animal. Most deaths from rabies contracted from bats is from being unaware of the exposure to rabies. Just because of the the lack of visible bite marks does not always mean there was no exposure. Bat bites sometimes leave no visible evidence and are not painful.

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