Seneng had tried to save a bat she found lying in her classroom at Bryant Middle School in Dos Palos last month.

A California teacher has reportedly died of rabies after she was bitten by a bat she found in her classroom. Fresno County has confirmed one of its residents passed away from the disease after a suspected bat bite, but declined to identify the victim.

A California educator has died from rabies after she was reportedly bitten by a bat at her school in nearby Merced County. Per the Fresno Bee, Fresno County's Department of Public Health last week noted that an individual had been exposed to rabies and was hospitalized for treatment.

Health officials are warning Californians of the dangers associated with handling wild animals after a Central Valley art teacher was bitten by a bat inside her classroom and later died of rabies.

Leah Seneng, a 60-year-old teacher at Bryant Middle School in Dos Palos, Merced County, had spotted the wild bat in her classroom sometime in mid-October, her close friend Laura Splotch told ABC30. When she tried to pick it up and take it outside ...

"I don't know if she thought it was dead or what," Laura Splotch, a friend of the victim Leah Seneng, told KFSN

A middle school teacher died after being bitten by a bat in her classroom. The incident occurred in October when she tried to pick up the animal and remove it from her room. RELATED STORIES: Atlanta Woman Bitten By A Cluster of Brown Recluses While Cleaning Shed Leah Seneng,

Although extremely rare, a Central California teacher has died of rabies after a wild bat bit her in a middle school classroom. The 60-year-old Fresno woman, Leah Seneng, found what appeared to be a lifeless bat while she was teaching her Byrant Middle School students back in October.