Originally Posted by
evblazer
My wife becoming an animal control office scrapped plans to put up a habitat for bats. They are great for the health of the environment and all but they are the top rabies carriers, and yes
rabies in humans is extremely rare but getting thwacked in the chest or face with them at high speed might be more risky then having them in the attic.
Looks like only
1% or so of bats but just be careful playing with the bats
A few quotes from Rabies.com
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Bats pose the biggest rabies risk to humans.
Also from Rabies.com:
"Of the 32 human rabies cases reported between 1990 and 2000,
24 were caused by contact with bats."
Um, with an average of 2.4 people out of 300,000,000 getting rabies from bats in any one year, I am going to have trouble sleeping tonight out of fear!