It’s bat season and LA County Department of Public Health has already ID’d seven rabid bats and expects to find more.
Public health officials reported last week that seven wild bats tested positive for rabies in Los Angeles County so far this summer, and more are expected as bat season gets underway.
Of the seven rabid bats found this year, four were in the Santa Clarita area, and one each in Glendale, Altadena and Los Feliz, county health officials reported last week. Rabid bats are found every year in Los Angeles County and the numbers have skyrocketed for the past two years. This year, the number of rabid bats is much lower than in the last two years at this time, she said. “We may be on the downhill slope of this surge in rabies cases. I’m hopeful this will start going down. We will see.”
“We have a lot of bats here where I live,” said Dianne Hellrigel, Santa Clarita resident and naturalist who started the Community Santa Clarita Hiking Club. “We probably have more bats than most areas because we are right near the Angeles National Forest.”
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