Bram Stoker's NIGHTMARE... by blinkings
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I wanted to show you guys this. I actually took this out of my car's window whilst I was stopped at the traffic lights! It's a dead bat. It wasn't killed by electricity or a predator. And it didn't die of old age. It's killer was Lyssavirus, a close relative of the common rabies virus that is not found in Australia. It's killing our bats, and us.
In November 1996 a Queensland woman who had recently become a bat handler, became ill.
She initially suffered numbness and weakness in her arm which progressed to coma and death. In December 1998 a woman from Mackay in North Queensland was also diagnosed with the disease and later died.
She had been bitten by a bat more than two years earlier, before the infection was first identified in humans and before information about vaccination and bat handling precautions were circulated.
The sad scene in this photo is becoming all too common.
Comments (17)
This is both awe inspiring and frightening at the same time Andrew.
yikes, scary stuff!!
this sounds horrific Andrew, you just never know whats around the corner
Appalling...and so interesting that it's grip persisted in death.
That is very alarming!
Great info to read but on the scary side too. Astonishing capture! It looks like the bat hooked on to the wire, for a quick nap, and then died. You are the master of finding the strangest things. :>) Dana
Blimey scary stuff ... amazing capture though !!
dude that is a really sucky deal, I' so sorry to hear that this is going on, and that it is effecting people with more than just the loss of your bats
Strange and scary capture, Andrew
Sorry to hear this my friend. Superb capture. God Bless.
wow hope it can be stopped
how terrible, for both the humans and the bats. I happen to like bats. interesting creatures.
Looks like a joke at the first moment, but it is horrific. Hope they can stop this sort of virus. We have an infection with EHEC- bacillus in the moment, what will be the next?
It's terriable to see wildlife die like that.
What a shot and a story to go with it. The fact that diseases exist at all is already pretty grim, especially those that seem to jump species! As for this photo, it's a grim, but also touching "Current Event" shot and hopefully that virus can be put under control; the only problem with viral diseases is that if they're deadly enough, there's really no surefire way to kill them without also killing the host! What a shot. It's incredibly moving and quite telling; it also makes me think. (off to google lyssavirus now...)
It is a scary scene, given the info you have shared. Clive
Jeez mate!!!!!!! Shocking, for both bat and people.. Thanks for showing us.. Rob