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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1113/
- Published: 2024-12-06T17:30:28.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-06T17:30:27.000Z
- Description: Splotch said Seneng had been working at a school in Dos Palos when she was bitten, which local media identified as Bryant Middle School.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> A schoolteacher in central California died of rabies after being bitten by a bat found in her classroom, officials and her friend said, prompting public health warnings about interacting with “wild or unfamiliar animals”.  
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> The woman died at a hospital in late November, about a month after being bitten by a “presumably rabid bat,” the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) said, without naming her.  
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> The school district and the teacher’s friend, Laura Splotch, identified her as Leah Seneng, 60\. Splotch said Seneng had been working at a school in Dos Palos when she was bitten, which local media identified as Bryant Middle School.  
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> Seneng was “a dedicated and compassionate educator,” the Dos Palos Oro Loma Joint Unified School District said in a statement cited by the Associated Press. “We were shocked to learn that Leah’s passing was related to contracting rabies, most likely from being bitten by a bat,” it added, noting that it was supporting the investigation of county health officials.  
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> “We live and work in a community known to have bats and other wildlife around school grounds,” it said, adding that it would “continue to help educate our community” about their dangers.  
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