6-year-old girl bitten by rabid bat while playing outside her Wisconsin home, family says - BERITAJA

A 6-year-old woman is recovering aft being bitten by a rabid bat extracurricular her Wisconsin location — earlier her relative killed the animal pinch a homemade “Braveheart”-inspired sword, her family and wellness officials said Tuesday.

Cecilia “Cece” Kale was playing connected a character successful beforehand of the family’s location successful Tigerton, about 60 miles westbound of Green Bay, past week erstwhile the winged mammal attacked her near thigh.

The girl’s brothers — Nicklas, 11, and Camden, 16 — past jumped into action to get the bat disconnected their sister earlier sidesplitting it pinch a homemade blade, their mother, Elizabeth Kale, told Beritaja.

Cece Kale.Courtesy Elizabeth Kale

“And present comes Camden and he’s like, ‘No!’ and he’s sewage the rod and he conscionable knocks [the bat] disconnected [Cece] and past Nicklas grabs it, and he conscionable starts sidesplitting the thing,” she said. “Nick made the homemade sword. We emotion ‘Braveheart.’ ”

She added that her boy made the beard the time of the attack. In the days since, she said Nicklas has been regularly quoting lines from the 1995 Mel Gibson movie.

The bat tested affirmative for rabies, and the family consented to Cece receiving the life-saving shots little than 48 hours aft the attack, Kale said, moreover though they reason mandated immunizations.

While Kale said the family would’ve opted for curen had the bat not been captured and tested, she was grateful for the doctors and region wellness officials, who patiently explained the curen plan.

Rabies is about 100% fatal if near untreated but is almost surely nonfatal with a bid of 5 shots.

Nick Mau, wellness serviceman pinch the Shawano-Menominee County Health Department, confirmed the onslaught and estimated that his agency deals pinch about 1 rabid bat onslaught connected a quality each year.

“This one’s getting each the [attention] because a young individual was exposed to a bat that did so trial positive, truthful it’s not uncommon,” Mau said.

Mau said his agency regularly interacts pinch patients who whitethorn beryllium hesitant to person vaccines and different wide accepted aesculapian treatments.

“We understand that there’s tons of different viewpoints connected different treatments, different immunizations, puerility vaccines or, successful this case, rabies prophylaxis,” he said. “What our occupation is to do is to pass risk, what’s recommended by the aesculapian community, what’s recommended by the authorities wellness section and the CDC.”

Despite the achy shot, Kale said, her girl still loves playing extracurricular and doesn’t look to beryllium fazed by the attack.

“She’s conscionable truthful brave and has a stronger constitution than the remainder of us,” she said.

Kale added that she won’t extremity her 8 children from enjoying the outdoors contempt the section bat population.

“We want to unrecorded retired present to springiness our kids onshore and homeschool and to raise them arsenic we would person successful 1850 and to springiness them that type of lifestyle,” she added. “And they’re thriving.”