Bats/Rabies

So far when I have pulled bats out of bedrooms etc. and sent them in for rabies testing I have not found any positives. Wondering what others have found?

Not often, but only takes one.

None that I have ever had tested have come back positive. A friend in Cobleskill woke up with one in his bedroom, had it tested, and ended up getting shots after it tested positive. I have heard of others testing positive at the company I previously worked for.

Funny story, years ago Jake brought 1 in for testing and the lab guy rejected it because it was alive. Jake walked out to his truck and then returned a couple minutes later. The lab guy have him a horrified look when accepting it. It was the lab guys rules, lol.

I've heard of others but never seen it for myself.

0 for me. I don't know how many I've sent over 23 years. I've had a few customers that had positives before I got involved.

No bats with rabies, but I'm getting a lot of rats with babies!

I got the 4 rabies shots from a Raccoon. Now I don't worry about it.

Had one tested positive, it was hanging on the rail of the folks baby crib.

I've submitted 5 over my career which have tested positive.

Yes one for me. A lady was bitten on the finger. She and husband killed it. It was positive and she got the shots. She was an R.N. and said she had no idea the treatment was so painful.

Where do you send them? Do they test coons ?

Frozen carcasses ?? or how do you send it in ?

Gotten nailed by a Raccoon on the hand back in 2016, had a series of eleven shots same day, Doc. told me shots go by weight. This past May, on a nuisance complaint, Shot a fox & got splattered with blood, Fox came back positive for rabies, health dept. told me I'd have get a booster, It was two shots, two days apart.

Varies by state just which dept handles it and how. But you local board of health should be able to point you right.

Here in Georgia it's handled through the county animal control. You submit the live animal to them, they are to dispatch but in practice I've dispatched. The idea is fresh not rotten or frozen.
They then forward it to UGA for testing.

But it is only required for known human contact.

2 positive.

2 positive for me,none in the past 5 years or so.