Forbes October 30, 2024
Last year, my friend Chelsi took her family to Tennessee for a summer vacation. While her 8-year-old son was in the hot tub, he curiously scooped up what he thought was a frog floating in the water but immediately dropped it in shock when he realized it was a small, live bat. It all happened so fast that her son wasn’t sure whether the bat had bitten or just nicked his hand as it flew away.
A week later, when they were back home in Alabama, he developed fever, chills, body aches, headache, sore throat, nausea, and vomiting—all symptoms that could be consistent with rabies. Knowing that rabies is one of the deadliest infectious diseases, his parents panicked. They took...
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