Friday, August 24, 2012

Possibly Rabid Bat at Baltimore Ravens game

It sounds like an after-the-fact nightmare.  You're sitting happily at a pre-season football game with your family and the newspaper says that there was a bat fluttering oddly in your section.  Do you go to get shots?  This happened Wednesday night in Baltimore

A bat landed on a person sitting in section 500 of M&T Bank Stadium as the Ravens played the Detroit Lions in a preseason game, officials said. It isn't known whether the bat had rabies because the person brushed it off and the bat flew away. But health officials said it's possible other people seated in the area could have touched the bat.

I'm not sure what I would do.  Lose sleep most likely.  If the bat flew away, it most likely was not rabid.  Rabid bats generally do not fly normally.  

Rabid bats may show abnormal behavior, such as outdoor activity during daylight; rabid bats may be grounded, paralyzed or may bite a person or animal. Not all rabid bat act abnormally, but bats that do are more likely to have rabies.


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