Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Want something to get paranoid about?
Local news about a family who found a bat in their house....
The whole family is now undergoing rabies shots because there’s no way to know whether anyone was bitten by the bat. “There’s no signs of bites,” said Cynthia Taggart, spokeswoman for the Panhandle Health District, “but bats have such sharp teeth that they can bite and you don’t know.” ...The bat was still alive when it was found. “They just kind of used a towel to pick it up and put it outside,” Taggart said. “They thought it would fly away, but it didn’t, it died – and that’s not a good sign. They wisely sent it off to us for testing, and it was rabid.”Yikes. Germs and radiation and pollution are naturally scary because you can't see them. Big mammal-type critters aren't scary in the same way. When a dog or cat or human bites you, the effect is obvious. You know what happened. This puts the bat into a doubly scary (bi-scary?) category. Big enough to bite, but you won't know it happened. ¶ 4:39 AM
