RIVERSIDE COUNTY PARENTS: Public Health Officials are searching for two preteen boys who were scene at the Crowne Town Center playing with a bat infected with the deadliest disease in the world, rabies.
— What may have seemed like an innocent animal encounter is now a big concern for Riverside Public Health officials.
“They touched and played with a bat that was positive,” said Riverside County Disease Control Director Barbra Cole.On Monday, a man shopping at the Corona Towne Center on Lincoln Avenue saw two preteen boys holding and petting a bat in the shopping center’s parking lot.The next day the bat died and tested positive for rabies. In 2021, Riverside County tested 64 bats, 6 of which tested positive for rabies.
Cole and Public Health are urging to ask their sons if they were the ones seen playing with a bat at Corona Towne Center. If so, immediately contact their healthcare providerDoctors can give the boys a series of shots within two weeks after exposure. “Teach children, not to touch,” said Cole. “Not to play with bats. You never know if they are positive or not.”According to the CDC and WHO, once symptoms appear there is no treatment for rabies, but it is a vaccine-preventable disease.
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