A Pilbara resident says she did not realise how serious a bat bite could be until she experienced it herself. A very small number of bats carry the deadly lyssavirus which is communicable to humans. The unlucky woman is undergoing a painful course of preventive treatment.
We all know that we don’t have rabies in Australia, but Australian bat lyssavirus is rabies(almost), the symptoms, transmission, treatment and prevention are all identical to rabies.
On top of this bats carry Hendra, Murray valley encephalitis, coronavirus and god knows what else.
Just stay away from bats everyone, especially in northern Aus.
Yeah, I got bit by a bat in Darwin so I got all the treatments and rabies immunity for a few years.
Unfortunately that’s expired now