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An 11-year-old Canadian boy has died from rabies after waking up with a bat on his nose and mouth.<\/p>\n

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The episode occurred during a visit to a cottage in northern Ontario in 2024, according to a report published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Monday.<\/p>\n

Woken by the shock, the boy, who wasn\u2019t named in the report, smacked the bat off his face. His father then caught it in a cooking pot and released it outside, doctors from the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at the University of Manitoba, Canada said in the report.<\/p>\n

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Since the child had no visible bite marks and the bat\u2019s behavior did not seem erratic, the boy\u2019s parents did not seek medical attention.<\/p>\n

However, 19 days later, the boy began to experience a progressive tingling sensation and numbness on the right side of his face, followed by facial swelling and a loss of appetite.<\/p>\n

Four days after the symptoms began, a local urgent care clinic prescribed him medication used to treat herpes, as it was presumed he had symptoms of Bell\u2019s palsy caused by the herpes virus.<\/p>\n

Three days later, he was brought to a city hospital emergency department in Ontario with painful swallowing and vomiting.<\/p>\n

A physical exam found ulcers in his gums and a mild impairment in a nerve on the right side of the face that provides sensation and controls chewing.<\/p>\n

The boy\u2019s family told the doctors about the incident with the bat and, the next day, the emergency doctor notified the local public health authority.<\/p>\n

However, the hospital discharged the child on a presumed diagnosis of herpes gingivostomatitis, which is sores in the lips or mouth caused by herpes.<\/p>\n

By the next morning, the boy had returned to hospital with weakness on the right side of his face, reduced sensation and slurred speech.<\/p>\n

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While waiting to be admitted, he developed a fever, difficulty swallowing, confusion and visual hallucinations.<\/p>\n

By the evening, the boy\u2019s condition had rapidly deteriorated. He was placed on a ventilator and admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we saw the patient in the PICU, we strongly suspected rabies,\u201d the doctors said.<\/p>\n

A PCR test confirmed a rabies diagnosis on the fourth day of the boy\u2019s admission. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency then also identified a bat rabies virus variant.<\/p>\n

The child died on his 17th day in hospital.<\/p>\n

Rabies is a virus that attacks the central nervous system of humans and other mammals, and it is almost always fatal once symptoms appear.<\/p>\n

It is contracted through an infected animal\u2019s bite or scratch, or if the animal\u2019s bodily fluids enter the eyes, nose, mouth or an open wound, according to the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) website.<\/p>\n

While there are several thousand cases of rabies confirmed in animals in Canada each year, according to the CVMA, rabies is very rare in humans in Canada, with just 28 human cases reported in the country since 1924.<\/p>\n

This patient was the first reported case of locally acquired rabies in Ontario since 1967, the doctors said.<\/p>\n

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