Region's health director issues alert over rabies-like bat virus

By Lisa Wachsmuth
Updated November 1 2016 - 11:50am, first published October 27 2016 - 4:35pm
Hands off: Leave the handling of bats - even cute babies - to trained and vaccinated WIRES staff as they could be carrying a deadly virus. Picture: GREG TOTMAN
Hands off: Leave the handling of bats - even cute babies - to trained and vaccinated WIRES staff as they could be carrying a deadly virus. Picture: GREG TOTMAN

Seven South Coast residents have received preventative treatment for a rabies-like virus following high-risk exposures to bats this year.

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