A man in Minnesota died of rabies after waking up in the middle of the night to a bat biting his hand.
The unnamed man, who was 84 years old, died in 2021 from rabies, six months after he was bitten by the bat, according to a new study published by the Clinical Infectious Diseases. The medical journal went on to look at the man’s health history, noting that he was first bitten by the bat on 27 July 2020.
