A bat found Thursday outside the main lobby of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Building on Alton Parkway in Irvine has tested positive for rabies, according to the Orange County Health Care Agency.
Given the location and circumstance, the OC Health Care Agency urged residents to be on the alert and avoid contact with any bats.
Anyone who may have had physical contact with this bat or who saw someone else having contact with the bat was asked to call the agency's Communicable Disease Control Division at 714-834-8180 to determine the risk for rabies.On Sept. 14, a bat found at a parking lot at Pickleball Court No. 1 at the Fountain Valley Tennis Center on 16400 Brookhurst St. tested positive for rabies.
Most cases of human rabies in the United States in recent years have resulted from bat strains of rabies; bats have very small teeth, and their bites may go unnoticed. Once a person begins showing signs and symptoms of rabies, the disease is nearly always fatal.
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