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.

Leah Seneng, a Central California teacher, died from rabies after she was bitten last month by a bat that 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