A woman from California dies after getting bitten by a bat in the classroom while she was trying to scoop it up and put it outside safely.

An art teacher at Bryant Middle School in southern Merced County, died last week of rabies. It's presumed Leah Seneng got rabies from a bat that had entered her classroom. Seneng told a friend that she noticed the bat in her classroom around mid-October.

A rabies exposure in Merced County has now been confirmed as fatal. Last week, the county’s department of public health reported a Fresno County resident had been exposed to the deadly virus in a possible bat bite and was being treated at a hospital. Fresno County’s Department of Public Health on Tuesday confirmed that the person has died.

FRESNO, Calif. - A California resident has died after being bitten by a suspected rabid bat, state health officials said. The victim, from Fresno County, died late last week after experiencing symptoms of rabies, according to the California Department of Public Health.

A California art teacher has died from rabies after she was bitten by a bat inside her school classroom. Leah Seneng, a 60-year-old teacher at Bryant Middle School in Dos Palos, Merced County, had spotted the wild bat in her classroom sometime in mid-October, her close friend Laura Splotch told ABC30.

Although extremely rare, a Central California teacher has died of rabies after a wild bat bit her in a middle school classroom. The 60-year-old Fresno woman, Leah Seneng, found what appeared to be a lifeless bat while she was teaching her Byrant Middle School students back in October.