General · 30 August 2026

Woman wakes up to find a live bat inside her mouth

A doctor from Virginia woke during a dream about a mouse and realised a bat was in her mouth. Krista Edelman, a gastroenterologist from Richmond, caught the mammal with her husband for rabies testing. She received preventive rabies vaccines, which stopped after tests confirmed the bat was not infected.

By BriefTea Editorial · 30 August 2026 at 5:01

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