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

A California art teacher has died one month after she was apparently bitten and infected with rabies by a bat she found ...

A central California teacher died last month after she was bitten by a bat inside her classroom that presumably had rabies ...

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

The woman, later identified as Leah Seneng, 60, marks the first human case of rabies in Fresno County since 1992. "In general, rabies is a disease that affects the brain, and it is very rare.

"I don't know if she thought it was dead or what," Laura Splotch, a friend of the victim Leah Seneng, told KFSN Danielle Jennings is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE, covering stories in Human Interest ...

"I don't know if she thought it was dead or what," Laura Splotch, a friend of the victim Leah Seneng, told KFSN Leah Seneng Facebook Leah Seneng A California middle school teacher has died after she ...

Leah Seneng, 60, was wounded after she unexpectedly found the animal in her classroom at Bryant Middle School in Dos Palos back in October, Laura Splotch, Seneng’s friend told local ABC ...

The death of Leah Seneng, 60, last week was confirmed to be from the horrific disease by Fresno County health officials, according to the report. Seneng had tried to save a bat she found lying in ...

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.