rabies, bat bite
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A tiny bat bite was all it took to put 15-year-old Gina Giese in a fight for her life against rabies, one of the deadliest viruses in the world. After the first symptoms appeared, doctors knew it was too late for the vaccine and tried an experimental treatment that had never been proven to work.
A 6-year-old Wisconsin girl was bitten by a rabid bat while playing outside her family’s home before her brother killed the animal with a homemade sword. Cecilia “Cece” Kale was climbing a tree outside her home in Tigerton when the bat sank its teeth into her left thigh last week.
