Symptoms of bat bites?
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Sometimes, you may see tiny fang marks, but usually you never know if you've been bitten. Another unforunate thing is that you will only know if the bat had rabies if you get them too.and its always fatal.
I got bitten by a friends cat 6 years ago, who was bitten by a bat the day before. We saw the fang marks in the cats ear and knew that the bats hung up-side down on the ceiling at night. I went to the doctor for medication for the cat bite and two and two were put together. I had 10 days after the bite to get the rabies vaccination started. I had 3 shot the first day and then one shot 3, 7, 14 and 21 days later.
You cant play around with this. Rabies are fatal, there is no cure.
Bat bites would have no symptom other than you would see the teeth marks. The only bats that could bite you and you would not know it are vampire bats, found in tropical countries. But even then, when you woke up you would see the marks and it would be sore. If you think you were bitten, then you should get checked out, but you would definitely have tooth holes. Bats have mouths like little dogs or cats... a bite would leave a mark that looked similar. I doubt very seriously that you would get bitten by a bat and not know about it.
Rabies is transmitted when an infected bat bites or scratches a person's skin. Bat bites may not be noticed because bat teeth are very tiny and razor sharp. Examining a person for evidence of a bat bite is unreliable, because a bat bite can be no bigger than a needle prick. Therefore, any direct contact with a bat should be considered a possible rabies exposure.
Bats flying overhead, and bats that have not had direct contact with humans or animals, do not pose a risk for transmitting rabies. If someone wakes up to find a bat in the room, or a bat is found in the room of an unattended small child, an intoxicated or mentally incapacitated person, or pet, the possibility exists that a bat bite, scratch -- or direct contact -- may have occurred.
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