Art teacher Leah Seneng, 60, was trying to help a bat find its way out of her classroom when she was apparently bitten. She died a month later from rabies.

A California art teacher died from rabies last month after apparently being infected by a bat she found in her classroom.

A friend of the woman who died from a rabies bite in Merced County said the bite happened inside her friend’s Dos Palos classroom.  Laura Splotch