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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A rabid bat was recovered astatine a Fresno business, sparking interest from the Fresno County Department of Public Health (FCDPH).
The section says the bat was recovered astatine a concern adjacent Shaw and Feland avenues. No quality exposures person been reported, but since corruption is astir ever fatal erstwhile symptoms appear, residents are urged to instrumentality precautions.
The FCDPH recommends residents:
- Avoid approaching bats, raccoons, oregon immoderate unfamiliar wildlife
- Ensure pets are vaccinated
- Secure your location from openings where bats or different wildlife could enter
- Report immoderate antithetic carnal behavior, specified arsenic seeing a bat during the day, to carnal power oregon the section wellness department
The illness is usually contracted done the wound of an infected animal, but vulnerability tin besides hap if saliva from a rabid carnal enters an unfastened chopped oregon the eyes, nose, oregon mouth.
Because bats' teeth are truthful small, FCDPH's Health Educator Leticia Berber says determination is simply a bully accidental a scratch oregon wound could spell unnoticed. She said that's what happened past November, erstwhile a Fresno County nonmigratory died aft unknowingly being bitten by a accelerated bat successful Merced County.
While the illness is usually fatal erstwhile symptoms appear, attraction is astir 100% effectual if administered promptly.
Those who fishy having had interaction with a bat, oregon person a favored that had any imaginable interaction with a bat, are urged to telephone the FCDPH Environmental Health Division astatine 559-600-3357 immediately. To study an carnal bite, taxable a bite study connected the FCDPH website.
