A California art teacher died of rabies after being bitten by a bat in her classroom. Exposed in mid-October, she was hospitalized in Fresno County and passed away on November 22. Rabies is a deadly but preventable viral disease primarily spreading through animal bites.

A California art teacher has died from rabies after she was bitten by a bat inside her school classroom. Leah Seneng, a 60-year-old teacher at Bryant Middle School in Dos Palos, Merced County, had spotted the wild bat in her classroom sometime in mid-October,

Although extremely rare, a Central California teacher has died of rabies after a wild bat bit her in a middle school classroom. The 60-year-old Fresno woman, Leah Seneng, found what appeared to be a lifeless bat while she was teaching her Byrant Middle School students back in October.

A California teacher has reportedly died of rabies after she was bitten by a bat she found in her classroom. Fresno County has confirmed one of its residents passed away from the disease after a suspected bat bite,

A California educator has died from rabies after she was reportedly bitten by a bat at her school in nearby Merced County. Per the Fresno Bee, Fresno County's Department of Public Health last week noted that an individual had been exposed to rabies and was hospitalized for treatment.

It was a rabid bat out of hell. A kindly California art teacher died of rabies after she was bitten by a bat that she was trying to rescue in her classroom, ABC30 first reported. The death of Leah Seneng,