A friend of Leah Seneng, the California middle school teacher who died weeks after being bitten by a bat in her classroom, recalls visiting her in the hospital shortly before her death on Friday, Nov.

Being a kind-hearted person, she didn’t want to hurt any animals. So she just scooped it up," a friend said. "She thought it ...

The Merced County Department of Public Health tells PEOPLE that an investigation into Leah Seneng's death is ongoing ...

A California middle school teacher has reportedly died after she was bitten by a bat inside her classroom in Dos Palos ...

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

Seneng had tried to save a bat she found lying in her classroom at Bryant Middle School in Dos Palos last month.

Leah Seneng, a California teacher, was bitten by what officials called a “presumably rabid bat.” Her friend said she tried ...

A California middle school teacher has died after contracting rabies via a bat that flew into her classroom. Leah Seneng, 60, ...

The woman, later identified as Leah Seneng, 60, marks the first human case of rabies in Fresno County since 1992. "In general ...

Friends say Leah Seneng, 60, found a bat in her classroom in mid-October and tried to help it get back outside. "I don't know if she thought it was dead or what, 'cause it was laying around her ...

Leah Seneng, 61, carried the winged mammal out of her classroom and released it, not knowing she had been bitten and fatally ...

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