How do bats get rabies?
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Bats can get the rabies virus (by biting or being bitten by an infected animal), but the incidence of bats and rabies is very low; usually only about one half of one percent of bats tested, test positive for the virus.
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bats spiders and rats
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Is that the same as "bats in your belfry?"  Seriously, find out how they are getting in there, find out what they like to eat (squirrel chow perhaps), and sprinkle it near their entrance.  Once you're sure they're all out, seal the hole.  But for goodness sake, whatever you do, be humane!  They're just doing what we do...trying to survive.  So please, don't do anything to harm them.  If you seek a professional person to get the job done, insist on humane (non-lethal) methods.
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Tough question.  The main thing about rabies is trying to find out if this was what is called a provoked or an unprovoked attack.  If you are just sitting on a park bench and a dog or a racoon comes out of no where and aggressively attacks and bites you, this is an unprovoked attack, you definitely need rabies shots.  However in this case the kitten was agitated and scared and therefore the bite would be considered provoked.  These are much much less likely to have rabies.  \nTwo things to do:  1.  Find the kitten and observe it for 10 days.  If it stays well and healthy - no rabies and you are done.  2.  If the kitten can not be found, go to a local health agency if there is one and find an infectious disease expert and ask about the prevalence of rabies in the town where you are living.  Kittens are not a major vector for rabies.  Bats are the much more likely to have rabies.\nDon't panic.  You have plenty of time... at least a month to get the shots if you truly need them!  Good luck!
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They dont, birds do. Humans can not catch a virus from birds tho, so there has to be a middleman (well pig). Birds give the virus to hogs, who then with a little twist of the virus give it to humans (hence the first name of swine flew). The best place for this to happen is a place that has both foul & pigs (a farm) so that is why you always hear about chickens & ducks (but it can be any bird).
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rabies\nYou can be allergic to them.
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There are numerous respiratory problems that arise from inhaling Guano droppings. The first is that Guano has a HIGH ammonia content and can burn the lungs. Secondly there are parasitic issues as well as the possible transmission of rabies from a bite. You need to have an exterminator remove the bats and then have the space professionally cleaned.
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They always turn left. Several websites also verify this, and several science books of facts I have read do too. Such as the Little Giant Book of Science. Just search a search engine for 'bats turn left when exiting a cave' and you will find several sites that verify this.
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I don't know that anyone has studied the life span of Egyptian Rousette Bats in the wild.  I'm not even sure about how much work has been done on the Megachiroptera at all in terms of life span.  However, in the Microchiroptera, it has been found that some of them are surprisingly long-lived for such small mammals.  Ten to fifteen years is not uncommon, and one little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) was re-captured 33 years after it was first tagged.  If the fruit bats show similar longetivity, they could easily live for decades.\n\nAs far as predators, I don't know of any predators that are specific to the Egyptian Rousette Bat.  The bat lifestyle, flight ability and their habit of roosting in large colonies within protected caves and caverns tends to protect them from most predators.  Snakes and monitor lizards will certainly take a few, and common predators like cats, jackals, eagles and owls will certainly take a bat if circumstances allow, but most Egyptian Rousette Bats are probably killed by farmers poisoning them to protect their crops.
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There is more chance of you getting rabies from the shot than from the dog bite. How many rabid dogs have you seen lately?\n\nDo NOT get vaccinated.\n\nA vaccinated person is MORE likely to get a disease than  a non-vaccinated person. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed. It causes a weakening of the immune system thus making those who are innoculated more susceptible to disease.\nThere are so many awful side effects to vaccination that it should be considered extremely dangerous.\nJust sit back and think for a while.\nIs there any sense in injecting a disease directly into your body.\nWe have been subjected to an awful mind control program to enable the drug manufacturers to make a fortune.\n\nThe Vaccination Hoax\nhttp://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html\n\n\nIf you go to the vaccination liberation web page, at\nhttp://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm\nYou will find all the forms necessary to provide exemption for your child.\n\nIf you want to study the history of vaccination, see\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/vaccination.html
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Bats or rats; better find out.\n\nPS Clicking is how their radar works, but we are speaking of vocalizations, not radar ( echolocation, to be precise ), and bats do vocalize.
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First of all it is usually illegal to catch wild animals without some sort of permit. I'll tell you anyway though for purely educational purposes.\n\nI know the way they catch micro-bats (tiny bats that live in Australia). You have contraption that consists of a metal frame that is rectanglar in shape. attached between top and bottom sides of the rectangle are many fishing lines. At the bottom of the frame is a bag in the shape of a trough (position so it can catch a bat on both sides). Basically the bat flies into the fishing line and slides down into the bag. The trap is left out where the bats flight path is likely to cross, usually close to where they roost.\n\nIt doesn't work a lot of the time though because the bats can pick up the lines using echo-location . However occasionally for whatever reason they don't and hit the trap.\n\nPlaese don't catch bats unless you have permission from your local wildlife authority. If you don't know what you are doing you can either:\na) hurt the bat\nb) get yourself arrested\nc) catch a nasty virus from the bat (I know in Australia bats often carry a virus that is similar to rabies) there have been a few virues known to cross over from bats to humans.
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A bat is also called  flittermouse as well as flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse. Bat is  also known as Cave Bat, Canyon Bat, or Darksinger. A group of bats is called a “clowd”.\n\nThere are several varieties of Bat, as seen in the various names above. The Flittermice are those bats be found in residential areas. They have tiny thumb-long bodies covered with soft, fine fur. Membranous, delicate wings with tiny bloodvessels and a soft downy flocking can stretch about two to three handspans across. Farmers report seeing the small Flittermouse diving through clusters of bugs near their houselantern, seeming to sift out the larger flying beetles from the smaller gnats and flies with a meticulous discrimination. Also, a clowd of Flittermice will settle on one type of fruit tree and drain the juices from every succulent globe, while ignoring other varieties immediately beside it. \n\nCave and Canyon Bats as implied by their names are those found in caves or canyons are larger; their torsos can range up to a hand in size, and the wingspan about a fore. Hollow, jointed bones with minute, powerful claws at ‘elbow’ and ‘wrist’ hold and structure the membrane of the wings and allow a meticulous folding or a taut expansion of the wing.\n\nThis small flying mammal has a natural ‘sonar’ system, is a devoted mate, and can eat its weight in insects in one night. It prefers to roost in caves by day and flies by night, using bounced echoes to determine its location in the air. \n\nBats that have been able to send and receive simple messages through aural pulses by echolocation and bats who specialize in this skill are  known as Morjualerons, translated as “Songspeakers” and “Darksingers”. \n\nAll varieties have the same basic body structure, topped by a dog-like little head with large ears. A short muzzle contains both a fine mesh of bony gum (good for trapping and grinding insects) and a few tiny, sharp teeth, often used to pierce the skin of fruit. An equally sharp, tube-like tongue is then projected into the fruit and the juices extracted with a sucking action. Huge light-absorbing eyes seem efficiently designed for night flight, but in fact the Bat can fly in complete darkness.♥
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Some viruses are not specific to animals or to humans and can be passed back and forth.  For example, the avian flu.  \nAlso, horses are susceptible to many human ailments.  These viruses are transferred just like any virus, through ingestion of some sort.  This means you breath it in if it is a virus that can survive while airborne, or you can eat it, drink it or get it into your body through sores or sensitive areas like your eyes or "other areas"(HIV).  Say an animal is sick and you kill it and eat it.  Maybe the virus withstands great heat and cooking the meat of the infected animal doesn't kill it.  Eating the meat will pass the virus.  You could touch the sick animal, get contaminated saliva on your hands and then you touch your mouth or eyes; you will get sick. \n\nMost viruses are specific to certain species though.  An animal virus only affects animals and a human virus only affects humans.  Still these viruses can mutate into a virus that affects humans and animals.  That is what is so scary about viruses.  They multiply quickly and mutations are very common.
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Possibly Rabies. A teenager here in Texas just died a month or so ago from a rabid bat coming in through his window and biting him while he was asleep.
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If you do not know if the bat has bitten anyone (because their teeth are so sharp, you may very well not know), all family members should be treated as if you were bitten.  Your family physician can help you with that.  The CDC recommends that.  Treatment consists of a series of shots that are given for a length of time.  This can avoid any incidents as you mentioned above.  As far as ridding the bat, some good suggestions are already mentioned.
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They could be very dangerous or even fatal, but not because of the physical injury caused by the bite (which is usually not large). Many bats are carriers of rabies and other diseases and parasites. While they're not aggressive, an animal affected by rabies loses nervous coordination and will often be found on the floor during the day. People see the little thing and figure they can "help it", and may get bitten. So please never approach a bat that you see in these circumstances (at least not with your naked hand)!\n \nThe South American vampire bats (genera Desmodus and Diaemus) can weaken cattle and other animals that they feed upon (mostly mammals in the case of Desmodus, and mostly birdds for Diaemus), and their victims are thus vulnerable to other predators, diseases, etc.\n\nPS I left you some comments in your question about mudskippers that might be useful :-)