Re: Please help convince me that this wasn't a bat
Well, question one should be, where do you live? Because bats either hibernate or migrate south during the winter months. None are going to be flying around my college in Pennsylvania for instance.
Also, purple spot does not mean bite. Bat bites may be hard to spot, but with how sharp their teeth are you would know.
But, let's assume you live in, say, Texas and it's warm so there may be bats around. A rabid animal (because that's what I'm assuming you are fearing) would not run up, bite, and run away. A rabid animal would attack repeatedly in most cases.
Even then, only around 0.5% of bats contract rabies. And bat populations are already low due to a plauge amongst bats that cannot spread to humans known as white nose syndrome.
Still, if you have reason to believe that you were bit, see a doctor sooner versus later. Once symptoms show the disease is neigh unstoppable. Odds are you were not though. Take a search around the forum about rabies and bats, the nefarious "Invisible bat" seems to get all of us at some point, and we are still posting for now.
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