California middle school teacher Leah Seneng, who died a month after a bat bit her inside a classroom, was remembered by friends and colleagues as "dedicated" and a "lover of life."

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