AR-News: (Brazil) Vampire Bats Kill 13 PeopleVampire Bats Kill 13 People

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Rabies-carrying vampire bats killed at 
least 13 people in a remote Amazon town in Brazil's northern state of Para last 
month, authorities said on Friday. 
The state health care department said the thumb-sized creatures had attacked 
about 300 people -- an unusually high number -- since March 2 in the riverside 
Portel area, next to the world's biggest estuarine archipelago of Marajo. 
"All the deceased had a history of recent bat attacks and six of them had 
confirmed human rabies from bat bites," a department spokeswoman 




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