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Health officials seek teens seen playing with rabid bat

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, November 23rd, 2004

Texas' Comal County health officials were searching for two teenagers who were seen playing with a sick bat that tested positive for rabies.

The boys were using the bat instead of a bean bag in a game of hacky sack, in which players try to keep a bean bag off the ground by kicking it to each other, Comal County Health Department nurse Karon Preiss said.

The teenagers ran away after a nurse saw them, told them to stop and called Animal Control officers. The bat tested positive for rabies at the Texas Department of Health laboratory.

It was not known if the boys touched the bat with their bare hands or if they were bitten or...

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