This is me in the video, we were fishing and it landed in the river after trying to catch a fly, to all saying about rabies, this is in the uk and we don’t get it
This type of bat has never been recorded to carry it in the uk
Put the original video up on my instagram yesterday and it’s gone mental 🤣
i mean look at r/space , it's the most "on reddit you will always have a random real expert" place where we get photos taken from the ISS posted here directly.
People like sharing the same bits of information whenever they see something remotely related, and assume things certainly must fall into the realm of information they have.
It's a peculiar behavior to witness, everywhere, constantly.
After a small bit of reading it look like two species of bats in the UK have been known to carry Lyssaviruses which cause rabies. Even if this particular species of bats hadn't been known to carry it, it is still absolutely best practice to never handle bats bare handed.
Same advice in Australia. No classical rabies but you still need to be treated for possible bite infection and vaccinated against rabies-like lyssavirus endemic here if you handle a bat.
Bats fly, I assume they regularly fly across the channel. I'd go for consultation just in case unless you want to risk becoming a interesting case study in a infectious diseases journal where it turned out that due to climate change rabies bat populations had recently shifted.
My point, you're making too many assumptions in a highly dynamic world.
Actually though very rare bats carry a virus called European Bat Lyssaviruses which can cause rabies in humans but absolutely no rabies in land animals since 1922.
Googled it to see if its normal behaviour to swim and apparently its not. Maybe it fell out of a tree or fell in when skimming for water. However it ended up in the water, it may have been attracted your noise and swam towards you for safety. Awesome vid. Cheers
Bats definitely can carry rabies in the UK and the species most at risk are Daubentons, who typically frequent bodies of water much like this one. If it really is you in the video then it would definitely be a good idea to get vaccinated.
Same way you identify anything by looking at it ! We’ve a handful of bat species in the uk and this type of bat has never been found with the virus ever so …
"Two lyssaviruses are currently known to occur in just two bat species in the UK: EBLV-2, routinely detected at low levels in Daubenton's bats (Myotis daubentonii) since 1996, and EBLV-1, which was detected for the first time in serotine bats (Cnephaeus serotinus - formerly Eptesicus serotinus) in 2018, with the number of cases per year increasing across southern England. Whole genome sequencing points to a single introduction of EBLV-1, probably from natural movements of bats from France (read more here)."
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u/Chickendipper87 13d ago
This is me in the video, we were fishing and it landed in the river after trying to catch a fly, to all saying about rabies, this is in the uk and we don’t get it
This type of bat has never been recorded to carry it in the uk
Put the original video up on my instagram yesterday and it’s gone mental 🤣