Beware of Bats
January 1, 2020
Last Reviewed: October 2021
Bats are the leading cause of domestically acquired rabies, according to the CDC, which reported that of 89 cases in the U.S. between 1960 and 2018, 62 of them (70 percent) were attributed to these mostly nocturnal mammals. (The remaining 30 percent of domestically acquired rabies cases were from other wild animals, including raccoons, skunks, […]