Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The case marks the second time this year a bat found in Plainfield has tested positive for the disease.
A bat found in a Plainfield backyard is Will County’s eighth confirmed case of wildlife rabies this year. According to the Will County Health Department, the infected animal was found by a resident in the 24000 block of Brown Lane, but no humans were exposed to the disease. The resident spotted the bat behind his home and noticed that it had difficulty flying. The bat was captured using a net and trapped inside a bucket while Will County Animal Control was notified. Animal control took possession of the bat on Sept. 14 and sent it for laboratory analysis. The health department said it received confirmation from the Illinois Department of Public Health late Monday that the bat tested positive for rabies. Three people and a dog live on the …
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Health department officials say it was one of two that made its way in; tenant urged to get rabies treatment.
A bat that was removed from a Joliet apartment has tested positive for rabies, the Will County Health Department said Wednesday. It was one of two bats that Joliet Township Animal Control trapped in the living room of an apartment in the St. Patrick's neighborhood. The woman, whose identity has not been released, is being urged to seek rabies treatment. Officials don't know how the bats got into the apartment, but speculate there must be some type of opening in the building. "It's our understanding that these bats had been seen around there previously," said Vic Reato, the county's health media services manager. "That suggests that there may be a structural issue." The bats were taken to Will County Animal Control and then shipped to the …
Friday, June 24, 2011
Will County Health Department confirmed the case June 22.
A second bat in Bolingbrook has tested positive for rabies, Will County officials say. According to a release from the Will County Health Department, a bat that fell from a tree near a Bolingbrook home has become Will County’s second confirmed case of wildlife rabies for 2011. The bat was discovered at a home on Sundance Drive on June 21. The bat subsequently tested for rabies the next day at the Illinois Department of Public Health. The man that discovered the bat touched the animal and then stepped on it, the release said. The Will County Health Department has recommended post-exposure rabies prophylaxis for the man who touched the bat. No other human exposures were identified, the release said. On May 24, the county’s first confirmed …
Beek
9:07 am on Thursday, August 30, 2012
Great. My son help remove one from the locker room at school. Time for a check up.... more ›