A California art teacher has died one month after she was apparently bitten and infected with rabies by a bat she found inside her classroom.

A California art teacher died of rabies November 22, about a month after apparently being infected by a bat she found in her classroom.

Leah Seneng, a Central California teacher, died from rabies after she was bitten last month by a bat that she found in her classroom.

A Central California woman died from rabies after she was bitten by a bat, officials said Tuesday, in the first fatality from the saliva-passed disease in her county in more than 30 years.

Fresno resident Leah Seneng was reportedly killed by a rabies infection that she likely caught from a bat that had wandered into her classroom.

Leah Seneng, a 60-year-old California teacher, died from rabies after she was bitten last month by a bat that she found in her classroom.

A California art teacher died from rabies last month after apparently being infected by a bat she found in her classroom.

A California middle school teacher has died after contracting rabies via a bat that flew into her classroom. Leah Seneng, 60, found the bat in her classroom in mid-October. When she went to pick it up and put it outside, it bit her, the woman’s friend, Laura Splotch, told ABC 30.

A California teacher has reportedly died of rabies after she was bitten by a bat she found in her classroom. Fresno County has confirmed one of its residents passed away from the disease after a suspected bat bite, but declined to identify the victim.

Health officials are warning Californians of the dangers associated with handling wild animals after a Central Valley art teacher was bitten by a bat inside her classroom and later died of rabies. The woman died late last week,

Fresno County health officials confirmed its first human case of rabies since 1992 has claimed the life of a California art teacher.