They seem to accept the possibility that a heavily sleeping person could get an undetected bite, but that clearly wasn't the case in your house!
Others reject that possibility:
"researchers gathered at the 29th North American Symposium on Bat Research find no credible support for the hypothesis that undetected bites by bats are a significant factor in transmitting rabies to humans, as implied by the January 16, 1998 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report."
That site also says that "Bat rabies accounts for approximately one human death per year in the United States," and another site says that "The British medical journal, 'The Lancet', reported less than two cases of human rabies (of all types) per year in the United States between 1980 and 1996." That "less than two" includes all kinds of rabies, not just bat rabies.
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Date: 2005-08-16 02:35 pm (UTC)http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/rabies/bats_&_rabies/bats&.htm
They seem to accept the possibility that a heavily sleeping person could get an undetected bite, but that clearly wasn't the case in your house!
Others reject that possibility:
"researchers gathered at the 29th North American Symposium on Bat Research find no credible support for the hypothesis that undetected bites by bats are a significant factor in transmitting rabies to humans, as implied by the January 16, 1998 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report."
http://www.batcon.org/discover/rabies.html
That site also says that "Bat rabies accounts for approximately one human death per year in the United States," and another site says that "The British medical journal, 'The Lancet', reported less than two cases of human rabies (of all types) per year in the United States between 1980 and 1996." That "less than two" includes all kinds of rabies, not just bat rabies.