signalsWere You In Fort Meyers On Monday?
June 20th 2009 17:27
If you have children between the ages of 10-12 and were on a Fort Meyers beach on Monday, you may want to ask them if they played with a bat. I'm not talking about a baseball bat, but rather the animal type. Seems the Health Department is seeking three boys that tossed, played and kissed a bat that had rabies.
Three kids have been found, including a girl who witnessed the incident and then took the bat to a wildlife rehabilitation center. The bat was examined, euthanized and found to have rabies. The children have about 4 days to show up and begin the painful shot regiment to prevent them from being at the mercy of the deadly disease.
Kids will be kids, but this may be a deadly lesson to learn that bats are the #1 carriers of rabies. And although they serve a great purpose as insect control, they should be left alone at all times.
Three kids have been found, including a girl who witnessed the incident and then took the bat to a wildlife rehabilitation center. The bat was examined, euthanized and found to have rabies. The children have about 4 days to show up and begin the painful shot regiment to prevent them from being at the mercy of the deadly disease.
Kids will be kids, but this may be a deadly lesson to learn that bats are the #1 carriers of rabies. And although they serve a great purpose as insect control, they should be left alone at all times.
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