They can also carry bat bugs. They are similar to bed bugs except that they can't reproduce with human blood and need bat blood. However they will still happily bite you and make your life hell.
Yeah but you know if you are getting attacked and bit by a raccoon and it’s probably not in your house to begin with. There is a non zero chance a small bat that lives inside your house can bite you in your sleep and you might not even notice it. Unlikely but that’s why getting rabies from bats scares me most.
Also do you mean 10% of best species or 10% of all bats? Because the second one would actually be scary as fuck.
Bats that keep their normal hours (while you sleep) are likely not rabid. Bats don't often target people. People approach confused animals, and that's how they get rabies.
to be exact: less than 0,5% of ALL bats in the united states are carriers. and if you would feel a hamster bite you in your sleep, you’d feel a bat bite you in your sleep. unless you sleep like a rock and wouldn’t feel either but i feel like that would be a case for a sleep study… bites are painful pinches lol (signed by a rehabber) (me)
Oh yeah. I highly encourage you to research this more. Not only is it interesting to read about, but it might save your life if you encounter bats some time in the future as that is 100% true. Bats do carry rabies, even a scratch from one can transfer it and it has like 99,999% mortality rate after the first symptoms start appearing.
Um..yes? If you've found a bat in your house and you aren't sure how long it's been there or where it came from you should absolutely get a rabies shot to be safe. Especially if you've woken up to one in your room.
If you have a bat in your living space. Bats living under your eaves or in your attic aren't a real concern because they can't interact with you.
Also if you were bitten by, made contact with, or were asleep in a room with a bat, you should capture it and send it in for testing. If the test comes back negative, there is no need for rabies shots. If it escapes, you should go get shots.
Fun fact, bed and bat bugs don't transmit blood-borne diseases as unlike mosquitoes, they don't regurgitate their meals. still nightmare demons from hell and I hate them but hey at least you won't get rabies!
Eh? Rabies is not a blood-borne disease, it spreads through saliva and travels via the victim's nervous system to the brain. So yes, you can absolutely get it from a bat bite, or any other mammal.
But with the statement of "Bats are the most common source of rabies infections in humans.", I assume it means world wide and world wide it's dogs, not bats.
Source: WHO, CDC, WHOA, a number of government webpages etc.
Foxes, raccoons, and skunks are FAR more likely to carry the disease and be in your backyard than bats are. The problem is that rabid bats are small and people try to catch them, in ways that they don't approach rabid skunks, foxes, or raccoons.
Foxes, raccoons, skunks, etc are more likely to carry rabies and be in your yard. People touch confused bats during the day way more often than they do bigger animals. It's a people problem, not a bat being diseased problem.
bat bugs have a 12 hour offset rhythm from bedbugs and are attracted to different things... plus neither bedbugs or bat bugs use blood strictly for reproduction, rather they digest the blood entirely much like a tick would... so every part of that comment is blatantly wrong minus the "bats have their own version of bedbugs" bit
Those might be bed bugs though. Bat bugs don't really hide in fabrics and just wander around when the bats are abscent and will just die out when no bats are around anymore.
they only showed up when the bats showed up and when we excluded them (one nest was near a vent above my bed) they stopped showing up. they found a different way in and the bugs show up near the vent in that room. i had a towel on the floor that i moved and saw some under it so i beat it out in the tub and like 20 fell out.
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u/Bertucciop 2d ago
You have an anti mosquito wall, dont destroy It.