According to an article in the Miami Tropical Audubon Society newsletter,
Spring 2011, five rabies shots cost---$27,000.
The author one evening picked up a "little fluttering thing," a bat, which
bit her repeatedly between the thumb and forefinger. After 3 days she
"yielded to reason (and fear)" and went to the doctor. Regular doctors do
not stock rabies vaccine so she had to go to the Emergency Room. She
received Five shots in the upper arm, painless, and a bill for $27,000. But,
that prevented the possible rabies virus from migrating to the brain, where
it is always fatal.
The bat was a Brazilian Free-Tailed bat and it lived for 3 days, hence the
shots.
The author says if you must handle bats wear heavy gloves.
By the way the Tropical Audubon Society headquarters in sw Miami at Coral
Gables is a great place to visit. Lots of birding in that very tropical and
jungle like area.
Cavingly,
Preston in KY
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