In the wake of Leah Seneng's death on Nov. 22, public health officials are warning the public about the dangers of bats, which are the most common source of human rabies in the U.S. Even though fewer than 10 people in the country die from rabies each year ...

Art teacher Leah Seneng, 60, was trying to help a bat find its way out of her classroom when she was apparently bitten. She died a month later from rabies.

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 California art teacher died from rabies last month after apparently being infected by a bat she found in her classroom.

A California middle school teacher has died after contracting rabies via a bat that flew into her classroom. Leah Seneng, 60, found the bat in her classroom in mid-October. When she went to pick it up and put it outside, it bit her, the woman’s friend, Laura Splotch, told ABC 30.

A friend of the woman who died from a rabies bite in Merced County said the bite happened inside her friend’s Dos Palos classroom.  Laura Splotch

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.

Teacher dies after being bitten by bat she tried to rescue inside classroom - Leah Seneng’s death prompts warning from public health officials about the dangers of bats

A California art teacher has died one month after she was apparently bitten and infected with rabies by a bat she found inside her classroom.

Leah Seneng, a 60-year-old California teacher, died from rabies after she was bitten last month by a bat that she found in her classroom.