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From: gcf@actnyc.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
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Subject: Re: rabid bats
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Date: 9 Jun 88 17:02:13 GMT
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chase@Ozona.UUCP (David Chase) writes:

>Watch out instead for wild dogs and cats, skunks and raccoons.  If the
>animal doesn't run from you, run from it (simple mnemonic from my
>childhood that applies equally well to poisonous snakes, rabid dogs,
>and alligators).

Actually, _walk_, do not run, to the nearest exit.  Sudden movement
attracts attention and often pursuit.  Many animals can move faster
than a human being for short distances -- for instance, I have clocked
a brown bear at > 35 mph for two or three hundred yards.

Besides rabies, some wild species (squirrels, for example) carry bubonic 
plague which supposedly can be transmitted to humans by flea bites.
I don't know if bats are in this category.