RALEIGH, NC (WNCN) — A North Carolina family is getting rabies shots after a rabid bat landed on their 2 year old.
It started out like any afternoon. Paige Martin said she was outside with her 2-year old son on Cokesbury Lane in North Raleigh. Her son was playing in a backyard sandbox when she noticed the bat.
“I looked down and it clicked: Oh my goodness, there’s a bat literally hanging from his arm,” she said. “I was thinking, ‘I’ve got to get this thing off of him.’”
She knocked it off with a shovel.
Her husband, Jason, heard her screaming and ran to help.
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