Abstract
Although there are numerous reports of human beings having been bitten by rabid vampire bats, 1 a search of the literature reveals only one proved attack on a human being by a rabid insectivorous bat. 2 That particular attack, by a member of the species Dasypterus floridanus on a 7-year-old boy in a remote section of Hillsborough County, Florida, occurred only three months before the attack involved in the case reported here. That rabies can occur in insectivorous bats both naturally 3 and experimentally 4 has already been established. Certainly its natural occurrence in bats native to the United States must be rare—and attacks on man by such bats, rarer still. This is the report of an unprovoked attack on a human being by a member of the species Lasiurus cinereus (Beauvois), the hoary bat. REPORT OF A CASE On Sept. 29, 1953, a 34-year-old woman was bitten in the
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