An Australian woman holidaying in Cairns was bitten by a bat and is now at risk of having the potentially fatal lyssavirus.
Sandi Galloway, from Geelong in Victoria, was walking back to her hotel late at night in the tropical city with friends when she was bitten by the creature.Ms Galloway told the newspaper she was waiting results to see if she had lyssavirus, which she believes is likely due to her symptoms.A woman, who had recently become a bat handler, died in 1996 from the virus, which was followed by the death of another woman in 1988 and an eight-year-old boy in 2013, according to the CSIRO.
Frighteningly, there is no known effective treatment once symptoms have started, and symptoms can appear weeks or even years after someone is bitten or scratched by an infected bat.
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