This may be dumb, but how do bats get in houses?

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Anonymous wrote:You have to assume you had a bite and go get the rabies vaccine. People don't always know they had the bite. Go to the er for shots- for everyone in the family. The er is usually the only place that keeps the vaccine.

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Please take this seriously.

My sister woke up and a bat was in her bedroom, and she indeed had to get the rabies shot series.

Yep, I had to do this, too. Apparently there was a case where a bat was found in the room of a sleeping girl. She died of rabies some time later. Apparently bat bites are so light that you could be bitten while you're asleep and not wake up. I believe the recommendation is also to get rabies shots if you're drunk and there's a bat in the room with you. CDC is a good source of info on all this.

My doc is in Maryland and she said if we were MoCo residents, we could get the serum at the county health department and bring it to her office for them to give us the shots. But we are DC residents and had to go to the emergency room. We went to Sibley and the whole process was pretty easy. We got the follow up shots at the infusion center there.

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Anonymous wrote:If you live in Montgomery County call 311 or animal control they will come (even late at night ), take it out, send it to a lab for rabbies testing and it's all free. Don't mess around. You can die from rabbies.

What is rabbies?

That's a bunch of jewish preachers

Anonymous wrote:If you live in Montgomery County call 311 or animal control they will come (even late at night ), take it out, send it to a lab for rabbies testing and it's all free. Don't mess around. You can die from rabbies.

What is rabbies?

Anonymous wrote:You have to assume you had a bite and go get the rabies vaccine. People don't always know they had the bite. Go to the er for shots- for everyone in the family. The er is usually the only place that keeps the vaccine.

When I got rabies vaccine, I had to get it from the county health department, who then gave me the 5 injection vials to be done by my doctor in subsequent weeks.

Anonymous wrote:Btw, they are now regular shots (not in the belly); do not risk death by rabies, get them asap.

This. Shots are easy/peasy. Just inconvenience of having to go the hospital to get them.

Anonymous wrote:You have to assume you had a bite and go get the rabies vaccine. People don't always know they had the bite. Go to the er for shots- for everyone in the family. The er is usually the only place that keeps the vaccine.

Wow,really? A bat flew into my hair once, oh, about 20 years ago. I just batted it away and went about my business. No one ever thought about rabies. Boy times change.

Btw, they are now regular shots (not in the belly); do not risk death by rabies, get them asap.

Get the shots. Rabies is universally fatal. I.e. if a rapid bat bit you, you will die.

You're going to have to get a series of rabies shots - it's like 4 shots and not fun. My co-worker just had to do this due to a bat in her house.

Anonymous wrote:You have to assume you had a bite and go get the rabies vaccine. People don't always know they had the bite. Go to the er for shots- for everyone in the family. The er is usually the only place that keeps the vaccine.

This.You can't sure rabies. It's not worth the risk. You will need to get the shots at the ER.

Anonymous wrote:Bats like to feed on flying insects, like mosquitoes. Attic rafters without screens, screen-less windows, chimneys are all entry points.

this is true.

We noticed a huge drop in bats after mosquito squad started to treat our backyard - double bonus