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

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