2000/WI/69-year-old-male
Silver-haired/Eastern Pipistrelle
Unverified bite
Patient removed bats from house with bare hands 2-3 times a year.

2000/MN/47-year-old-male
Silver-haired/Eastern Pipistrelle
Bite
Patient did not seek medical treatment.

2000/GA/26-year-old male
Mexican Free-tailed
Unverified bite
Bats from attic colony entered patient's sleeping quarters.

2000/CA/49-year-old-male
Mexican Free-tailed
Unverified bite
Patient removed bat that had flown into house.

1998/VA/29-year-old-male
Silver-haired/Eastern Pipistrelle
Unverified bite
Patient was an inmate and sometimes worked picking up trash and debris along roadsides

1997/NJ/32-year-old male
Silver-haired/Eastern Pipistrelle
Unverified bite
Patient excluded bats from apartment

1997/TX/71-year-old male
Silver-haired/Eastern Pipistrelle
Unverified bite
Bat found in patient's hotel room and landed on left shoulder

1997/WA/64-year-old male
Big Brown
Unverified bite
Patient lived in heavily wooded area; cleaned well house and gardened after dark
 
 1997/MT/65-year-old male
Silver-haired
Unverified bite
Bat in patient's house for several days; used a broom to put outside

1996/MT/49-year-old male
Silver-haired
Unverified bite
Patient was a lumber mill custodian; bats were observed around the area

1996/KY/42-year-old female
Silver-haired
Unverified bite
Patient's chimney was open to wildlife; bat(s) had opportunity to enter house
 

1995/CA/74-year-old male
Silver-haired
Unverified bite
Patient sometimes caught bats

1995/CT/13-year-old female
Silver-haired
Unverified bite
Bat found flying in patient's home

1995/CA/27-year-old male
Mexican Free-tailed
Unverified bite
Bat landed on patient's chest and was brushed off. Possibly an imported case of rabies as patient was a field worker and had been in Mexico
 

1995/WA/4-year-old female
Myotis californicus or M. ciliolabrum
Unverified bite
Bat found in patient's room
 

1994/CA/44-year-old male
Silver-haired
Unverified bite
Patient camped outdoors; cared for sick kitten that was later turned over to humane society. Disposition of kitten unknown
 

1994/TN/42-year-old female
Silver-haired
Unknown exposure
Patient had many unvaccinated pets
 

1994/WV/41-year-old male
Silver-haired
Unverified bite
Bat described as red bat, but silver-haired variant. Patient shot and handled bat; ran his fingers along its teeth
 

1994/AL/24-year-old female
Mexican Free-tailed
Unverified bite
Patient removed dead/dying bats from place of employment
 

1993/TX/82-year-old male
Silver-haired
Unknown exposure
Patient was exposed to dying cow of unknown disease; attic and living quarters had openings for bat access
 

1993/NY/11-year-old female
Silver-haired
Unverified bite
Dead bat found in patient's home prior to illness
 

1991/GA/27-year-old female
Silver-haired
Unverified bite
Patient may have killed and disposed of a bat
 

1991/AR/29-year-old male
Silver-haired
Unverified bite
Bat landed on patient's face during night while in bed. Bat killed/not tested
 

1990/TX/22-year-old male
Mexican Free-tailed
Bite
 

1984/PA/12-year-old male
Myotis (small)
Unverified exposure
 

1983/MI/5-year-old female
Silver-haired
Unverified bite
Patient claimed she was bitten
 

1979/KY/45-year-old male
Silver-haired
Unverified bite
Patient raised tobacco; hunted deer occasionally
 

1979/OK/24-year-old male
Silver-haired
Unverified bite
Patient's occupation was woodcutter; activities prior to illness provided potential for bite exposure
 

1978/ID/37-year-old female
Silver-haired
Corneal transplant
 

1978/OR/39-year-old male
Isolate unavailable
Unknown exposure
 

1976/MD/55-year-old female
Silver-haired
Bite
by big brown bat, but variant silver-haired
 

1973/KY/26-year-old male
Silver-haired
Bite
 

1971/NJ/64-year-old male
Species not reported
Bite
 

1970/OH/6-year-old male (survived)
Big Brown
Bite
 

1959/WI/44-year-old male
Species not reported
Bite
 

1959/CA/53-year-old male
Mexican Free-tailed
Alleged aerosol
Texas cave
 

1958/CA/53-year-old female
Silver-haired
Bite
 

1956/TX/38-year-old male
Mexican Free-tailed
Alleged aerosol
Texas cave
 

1951/TX/43-year-old female
Species not reported
Bite

Page updated by Tamara Romaine of

Page last updated 09 May 2004