On 27/01/2012 01:40, J G Miller wrote:
And do not forget that bat bites can be fatal.

Bats suffer enough without false reports like that...

http://www.redorbit.COM/news/health/502523/texas_teenager_dies_of_rabies_from_bat_bite/

.... because the URL tells me it's in Texas. Different bats to the UK,
and a place where rabies is endemic. And even then rare enough to make
the papers.

Ah.
On 27/01/2012 11:10, Tim Downie wrote:
Even in the UK


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...ctim-dies.html



Well the daily mail being the fount of all accurate reporting I checked.


http://www.snh.org.uk/press/detail.asp?id=2104

Turns out that wasn't actually rabies. Something quite closely related
though, so if you are a naturalist who handles bats all the time, or get
attacked by Dracula, you probably want to see a doctor. You might be
the one person in ten years across the whole of Europe who dies from
Lyssavirus.

You're probably more likely to die falling off the loft ladder trying to
get away from them.

Andy