A California middle school teacher has died after contracting rabies via a bat that flew into her classroom. Leah Seneng, 60, found the bat in her classroom in mid-October. When she went to pick it up and put it outside, it bit her, the woman’s friend, Laura Splotch, told ABC 30.

A Central California woman died from rabies after she was bitten by a bat, officials said Tuesday, in the first fatality from the saliva-passed disease in her county in more than 30 years.

A California art teacher died after contracting rabies from a bat who bit her as she was trying to remove it from her classroom without harm.

Leah Seneng, a Central California teacher, died from rabies after she was bitten last month by a bat that she found in her classroom.

A central California middle school teacher died after contracting rabies from a suspected bat bite, local health officials said.

Fresno resident Leah Seneng was reportedly killed by a rabies infection that she likely caught from a bat that had wandered into her classroom.

Leah Seneng, a 60-year-old California teacher, died from rabies after she was bitten last month by a bat that she found in her classroom.

A California middle school teacher has reportedly died after she was bitten by a bat inside her classroom in Dos Palos

Seneng had tried to save a bat she found lying in her classroom at Bryant Middle School in Dos Palos last month.

Health officials are warning Californians of the dangers associated with handling wild animals after a Central Valley art teacher was bitten by a bat inside her classroom and later died of rabies. The woman died late last week,

Fresno County health officials confirmed its first human case of rabies since 1992 has claimed the life of a California art teacher.