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A Bryant Middle School art teacher in southern California died of rabies after being bitten by a bat in her classroom. Leah ...

The teacher was reportedly trying to scoop the bat up to get it out of her classroom when it woke up and bit her.

Leah Seneng, 60, died after being bitten by a rabid bat inside her classroom at Bryant Middle School in Dos Palos in Merced County, according to published reports.