A California art teacher died of rabies November 22, about a month after apparently being infected by a bat she found in her classroom.

A Central California woman died from rabies after she was bitten by a bat, officials said Tuesday, in the first fatality from the saliva-passed disease in her county in more than 30 years.

Leah Seneng, a Central California teacher, died from rabies after she was bitten last month by a bat that she found in her classroom.