Notes from the Field: Postexposure Prophylaxis for Rabies After Consumption of a Prepackaged Salad Containing a Bat Carcass — Florida, 2017 | MMWR

Notes from the Field: Postexposure Prophylaxis for Rabies After Consumption of a Prepackaged Salad Containing a Bat Carcass — Florida, 2017 | MMWR

How Did a Dead Bat Get Into

Packaged Salad?

In April 2017, CDC, the Florida Department of Health, and FDA investigated an incident where two people ate packaged salad before noticing it contained the remains of a dead bat. They received treatment to prevent rabies infection out of an abundance of caution, because testing could not determine whether the bat had rabies. Read more about the investigation and how investigators concluded where the bat got into the salad, in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.