Canadian boy dies of rabies after bat contact during family cottage visit

An 11-year-old boy died from rabies 17 days after hospital admission, representing one of only 28 rabies deaths in Canada since 1924.

In the summer of 2024, an eleven-year-old boy from Ontario died of rabies after a bat briefly touched his face while he slept at a family cottage — a death so rare in Canada that the disease itself had become nearly invisible to those who might have recognized it sooner. The absence of a visible wound, the ordinariness of the moment, and a series of misdiagnoses conspired against him in the weeks that followed. His death, now documented in a medical journal, stands as a quiet but urgent reminder that some dangers leave no mark at the moment they arrive, and that the window for intervention can

Canadian boy dies of rabies after bat contact during family cottage visit

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