A child has died from rabies after a bat was found in their bedroom.
The child, whose name and age was not shared, was taken to hospital in early September and later died.
It’s claimed the youngster, who lived in Ontario, Canada, woke up with a bat in their bedroom.
Dr Malcolm Lock of the Haldimand-Norfolk health Unit told councillors at a board meeting on Wednesday the child was exposed to the virus in an area north of Sudbury.
‘They woke up with a bat in their bedroom,’ Dr Lock said, but the child’s parents had not seen any bites so did not seek medical help.
It is the first domestically-acquired case of human rabies in Ontario since 1967.
Dr Lock said the percentage of bats with rabies in the southern Ontario region he oversees has increased from less than 10% to 16% in recent years, the BBC reports.
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