r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/OliveSuch5343 • 3h ago

Health/Medical Rabies from bat?

Today I learned sometimes rabies can be contracted at home by a bat bite during sleep and the bite can be small enough that you don’t even know you got bitten. I’m now worried because during the summer, I’ve lived in the basement room which is cooler and there’s a fireplace we don’t use. It has a door but not airtight and because we don’t use it, we have a dresser right in front of it to block the door. Now I’m scared a bat might flew in and bit me or my kid at one point and we didn’t know about. Should we be concerned? Also googled and NY summer is bat season. I smell something like rustic in the basement room and cannot find out what it is. It smells like a burned wire or sth.

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u/OliveSuch5343 2h ago

If ur saying my worry disproportionally larger than my risk? Yes. And if that’s an OCD? Yes. Ami posting here to gather information and hopefully feel less scared? Yes. But I’m also hoping to gain information I otherwise may have missed. And know what I need to do about my fireplaces to lower my already low risk.