Late Breaking Matcom News: Rabies Found in Wyoming School's Pet Bat

[XemaSab]

Catching a bat in a school basement and keeping it as a classroom pet is a great way to learn — about rabies.


Two staff members at Trinity Lutheran School are getting a weekslong series of rabies shots after a bat kept in a locked terrarium tested positive for the disease.


On May 9, seventh- and eighth-grade teacher Steve Coniglio used a stick and a bucket to capture the bat, which died two days later.


The bat had been displayed in classrooms and students gave it crickets, but Susan Tucker, head teacher at the central Wyoming school, said Coniglio made sure students did not handle the animal.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/05/17/national/a095004D18.DTL

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[billyskank]

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