A routine call about a dead bat in Fremont’s Glenmoor neighborhood has turned into a full-on public health alert, after the animal tested positive for rabies, according to city and county officials.
The bat was found at a home on Logan Drive, where Alameda County Vector Control responded on Tuesday. The specimen was sent for testing and confirmed positive by Alameda County Public Health on Wednesday. As of yesterday, Fremont police reported no known human or animal exposures, but Vector Control staff said they would be going door to door in the immediate area to warn neighbors in person.
In a press release, the Fremont Police Department told CBS San Francisco that Alameda County Vector Control collected the bat and is leading the county’s rabies investigation. The department said samples were sent to the county public health laboratory for confirmation and that officials had not identified any related exposures at the time of the statement…