Dogs of rabies survivor are exposed to bat that tested positive for the disease

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http://www.fdlreporter.com/article/20130802/FON0101/308020167/In-ironic-twist-dogs-local-rabies-survivor-Jeanna-Giese-exposed-bat-tested-positive-disease-story-video-?nclick_check=1

In an ironic twist, the dogs of local rabies survivor Jeanna Giese are exposed to bat that tested positive for the disease

Jeanna Giese had a sense of déjà vu Tuesday morning when she spotted a small, brown object lying in the enclosure that holds two of her three Siberian huskies. Using a shovel to get a closer look, the Fond du Lac woman saw a bat, it’s small body covered with bite marks from the dogs.

“We double-bagged the bat and had my vet send it to Madison to have it tested,” Giese said. “I was hoping that the bat wouldn’t test positive for rabies, that it was just another small animal the dogs had gotten a hold of.” A phone call from the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene the next day confirmed Giese’s suspicions.

“How many people in the entire world can honestly say that a rabid bat has affected their lives twice in nine years?” asked Giese, who attracted national attention after contracting rabies herself in 2004 when she was bitten by a rabid bat at Fond du Lac’s St. Patrick’s Catholic Church.

The 24-year-old was the first person in history to survive the rabies virus without having a rabies vaccine.

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1. Smart lady. She keeps her dogs CURRENT on their rabies vaccines.

I wish more people kept their cats current. I am sending a head in to the county lab today - unvaccinated kitty with neuro disease bit somebody and died the next day.