Hit by a bat while riding!

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I had a friend who unknowingly slept in a room with one under her bed. Even though it was dead, she had to have the rabies vaccination. You do not have to be bitten and you did come in physical contact with the bat.

The fear there is that the bat may have bitten her -- bat teeth are really tiny -- and then died while she was sleeping. If she'd seen the dead bat before she went to bed... well, she probably wouldn't have gone to bed!

Seems to me the bat, already dead, could have been tested before someone decided she needed to have the rabies series. I wonder why they didn't do that?