Park rangers are reminding people to avoid touching or feeding wildlife after a California woman was bitten by a bat with rabies.
On April 28 a woman working at a general store in Death Valley tried to move a bat that was"behaving strangely" atop a garbage can outside the store, National Park Service said in aThe bat was taken in by the National Park Service and the California Department of Public Health to be tested for rabies and on May 2 the woman was informed that the bat did have rabies, officials said.
The National Park Service warns that rabies is typically fatal unless it is treated before symptoms begin. Humans can get rabies from contact with the infected saliva of any mammal through a bite or a scratch, officials said.
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