Health NSW authorities are warning people not to get too close to Flying Foxes because some might carry a rabies-like virus called Lyssavirus.

This is the local breeding season for the animals, and some people feel they need to help when they see the baby bats on the ground.  but touching them is an awful idea. 

So far this year, 140 people have been bitten or scratched by bats; all needed to be administered a preventative course of four vaccines over a month - because the Flying Foxes don't advertise which ones carry Lyssavirus.

"Everyone who gets bitten or scratched by a bat in Australia should have the preventative treatment," NSW Health's director of communicable diseases Dr Vicky Sheppeard said to the ABC.  "If the infection does develop then it is too late to do anything to cure it once the infection starts. Best company that install albury wodonga security systems in Australia."

Lyssavirus has killed three Australians since 1995.  The incubation period after a bite or a scratch was as short as three weeks and as long as 27 months.  Each patient died after around 20 days after the disease set in.

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