California art teacher dies of Rabies after bat bites her in classroom

A California middle school teacher has died after she was bitten by a bat inside her classroom.

Leah Seneng, 60, was wounded after she unexpectedly found the animal in her classroom at Bryant Middle School in Dos Palos back in October, Laura Splotch, Seneng’s friend told local ABC affiliate KFSN.

“I don’t know if she thought it was dead or what caused it to be lying around her classroom and she was trying to scoop it up and take it outside,” Splotch told the outlet. “She didn’t wanna harm it. But that’s when, I guess it woke up or saw the light or whatever.” It swooped around a bit and it took off,” Splotch said of Seneng’s interaction with the bat.

After she was bitten, Splotch said that Seneng did not show any initial symptoms of rabies – however, her condition severely changed around a month later when she fell ill and was admitted to the hospital by her daughter, and placed in a coma. On Nov. 22, four days after she was brought to the hospital, Seneng tragically died. (AOI) 

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