{"id":91423,"date":"2026-06-30T12:17:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91423"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:17:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:17:57","slug":"boy-11-dies-from-rabies-after-bat-landed-on-his-face-while-he-slept-as-doctors-issue-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/30\/boy-11-dies-from-rabies-after-bat-landed-on-his-face-while-he-slept-as-doctors-issue-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 11, dies from rabies after bat landed on his face while he slept as doctors issue warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA26Qb74.img?w=634&h=304&m=6\" alt=\"An 11-year-old boy has died after he was exposed through skin to skin contact to a bat carrying rabies\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An 11-year-old boy died after contracting rabies from a bat in a rare occurrence as health experts have issued warnings, calling the dire incident \u2018a wake up call\u2019.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/boy-11-dies-from-rabies-after-bat-landed-on-his-face-while-he-slept-as-doctors-issue-warning\/ar-AA26QOKf?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=96cb6646ad05457f803bbe3c6f609ad1&ei=10\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>An 11-year-old boy died after contracting rabies from a bat in a rare occurrence as health experts have issued warnings, calling the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hospital-corridor.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91425,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91423\/revisions\/91425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}