It was due to time. It was going to be a period of 4-5 days to determine whether or not the bat was diseased. The County in which this happened had the bat sent to a laboratory in Atlanta. By the time they received it, the bat had been deceased for too long. Better safe than sorry, my friend had no problem complying with the recommendation for the vaccinations. She also had touched the dead bat... any contact with a carrier, dead or alive, can transmit rabies.