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Tourist bitten by bat feared to have fatal virus: ‘I didn’t want to believe it’

An Australian woman fears she has a fatal virus after getting bitten on the head by a bat while on vacation.

“I didn’t want to believe a bat had bitten me,” Sandi Galloway, told the Cairns Post of the attack, which occurred while she and her husband Gordon were sightseeing in Cairns, Queensland.

The couple was strolling back to their hotel at around 11 p.m. after having coffee with friends when all of sudden Galloway felt something flapping close to her

“I felt something flying over my head,” said the horrified Aussie, recounting the “Dracula”-evoking encounter.

Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/10/05/tourist-bitten-by-bat-feared-to-have-fatal-virus/

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