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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Fresno County residents are asked to enactment vigilant aft a rabid bat was recovered extracurricular of a concern successful North Fresno.
The Fresno County Department of Public Health cannot disclose the circumstantial concern but mentioned that a lawsuit recovered the bat connected the sidewalk. No quality vulnerability has been reported.
"Once it cools down successful the evening, they'll travel retired to feed," said Leticia Berber, Health Educator astatine Fresno County Department of Public Health. Berber, who wants to amended the nationalist connected the seriousness of rabies, says if you spot a bat during the day, study it immediately, arsenic bats are typically nocturnal. "Very unsafe illness that tin beryllium fatal if not treated," she says.
Bats person specified tiny teeth that you mightiness not adjacent recognize if you person been bitten oregon scratched. "If you bash get bitten by an carnal that is infected with rabies, erstwhile those symptoms appear, that is excessively late. There's thing that the doctors tin do," Berber explained.
In October, 60-year-old teacher Leah Seneng found a bat successful her schoolroom successful Dos Palos. She scooped it up to instrumentality it outside, but it spot her. It didn't transverse her caput that she mightiness person been infected with rabies. She passed away weeks later.
“Bats are progressive close present successful Fresno County, March done November," Berber warns. But John Horton, proprietor of Modern Wildlife Solutions, besides wants to punctual america that bats are beneficial.
"They devour astir one-third of their value successful insects each night. So they're a affirmative diagnostic successful the ecosystem," helium shared. Horton provides pest power services. When helium receives calls astir bats that are excessively adjacent to radical but look healthy, helium releases them into agrarian areas. “And benignant of fto quality instrumentality its course," Horton added.
Bats aren't the lone animals to observe intimately for rabies. Berber says that if dogs, cats, oregon raccoons are acting strangely, approaching you, oregon look to person trouble walking, study them instantly to the wellness department. You tin scope them astatine 559-600-3200.
