11-year-old dies from rabies after bat landed on his face while he was sleeping

An 11-year-old lad died of a rabies corruption successful Ontario, Canada, according to a aesculapian diary nonfiction published Monday.

The Canadian Medical Association Journal did not place the lad oregon his household but wrote that helium was archetypal brought to a infirmary weeks aft an brushwood with a bat.

"The patient’s household reported that, during a sojourn to a cottage successful bluish Ontario 19 days earlier grounds onset, the lad had been awoken by a bat connected his chemoreceptor and mouth. He had swatted the bat disconnected his face; his begetter had caught the bat successful a cooking cookware and released it outside," CMAJ wrote.

MEASLES-INFECTED TRAVELER MAY HAVE EXPOSED PASSENGERS AT LAX AND NEARBY HOTEL, HEALTH OFFICIALS WARN

A communal noctule bat (Nyctalus noctula) photographed successful Kersdorf, Brandenburg, March 14, 2026. (Patrick Pleul/picture confederation via Getty Images)

"The kid had nary disposable lesions connected his face, and his parents did not see that the bat had behaved erratically. Therefore, they did not question aesculapian assessment," the diary noted.

The lad was yet admitted to a infirmary 20 days aft the brushwood with the bat, erstwhile his parents brought him to an exigency room. He was archetypal sent location but past brought backmost the pursuing greeting and admitted to the hospital.

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Doctors noted that the boy's information "rapidly worsened" by the evening, but helium spent much than 2 weeks successful the infirmary earlier dying.

MEASLES-INFECTED TRAVELER MAY HAVE EXPOSED PASSENGERS AT LAX AND NEARBY HOTEL, HEALTH OFFICIALS WARN

"By time 5 of admission, his brainstem reflexes were absent. Life-sustaining therapies were withdrawn connected time 17 of admission, and helium died peacefully with his household astatine his bedside," the diary nonfiction said.

Doctors who authored the nonfiction warned that immoderate nonstop quality interaction with a bat, adjacent successful the lack of a disposable wound oregon scratch, should beryllium discussed with nationalist wellness authorities.

This photograph taken Nov. 1, 2018, shows veterinarian Amy Keith giving Lincoln a rabies changeable arsenic veterinary caregiver and Veterinarian Assistant Nate Johnson provender Lincoln food wiz astatine Valley West Veterinary Hospital successful Charleston, W. Va.  (Craig Hudson/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP)

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Rabies is astir ever fatal successful humans if not treated rapidly with postexposure prophylaxis, oregon PEP. The attraction is astir ever palmy if administered promptly aft exposure.