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導讀:千萬別以為只有貓狗才會傳染狂犬病，美國一男子把捉到的蝙蝠當寵物，還讓妻子一起和蝙蝠玩耍，結果感染狂犬病死亡。
A Utah man who caught bats and let his wife play with them, died of rabies — the first death of its kind in the state in 74 years.
猶他州一名男子捕捉蝙蝠並讓他的妻子與其玩耍，後來他死於狂犬病，這是該州74年來首例此類死亡病例。
Gary Giles, 55, first began having neck and back pain on Oct. 19 and doctors thought he』d just pulled a muscle.
55歲的加裡.吉爾斯從10月19日開始頸部和背部出現疼痛，醫生認為他只是拉傷了一塊肌肉。
But the pain only got worse and turned to numbness and tingling.
但疼痛變得更厲害了，變成了麻木和刺痛。
「Being touched, he felt like he had pins and needles all over his skin,」 Giles』 daughter Crystal Sedgwick told Fox13. 「He felt like his skin was on fire.」
吉爾斯的女兒克裡斯特.塞奇威克告訴福克斯13頻道說:「他被觸摸時，會感覺全身發麻，好像皮膚著火似的。」
It wasn’t until Giles died on Sunday at Utah Valley Hospital that doctors realized he』d been infected with rabies, Sedgwick said.
塞奇威克說，直到周日吉爾斯在猶他谷醫院去世，醫生們才意識到他已經感染了狂犬病。
The state’s health department believe he contracted the deadly virus from bats, which literally hung around his home, but they’re still working to confirm the theory.
該州衛生部門認為，他是從家裡的蝙蝠那裡感染了這種致命病毒，但他們仍在努力證實這一猜想。
「My mom has always thought that bats were really cute, so he would sit there and hold them for her and let her pet their heads, and they would lick them,」 Sedgwick said.
塞奇威克說:「我媽媽一直認為蝙蝠很可愛，所以他會坐在那裡為她抱著蝙蝠，讓她撫摸它們的頭，然後它們會舔他們。」
Sedgwick’s mom, Juanita Giles, said she didn’t realize the bats that infested their home could be carriers of the highly contagious ailment.
塞奇威克的媽媽胡安妮塔.賈爾斯說，她沒有意識到，在家裡出沒的蝙蝠可能是這種高度傳染性疾病的攜帶者。
「I had no clue,」 she told KSL. 「We would wake up in the night and they would be walking on our bed.」
她告訴KSL 電視臺：「我毫無頭緒，我們會在夜裡醒來，他們會在我們的床上走。」
「I』ve always thought bats were kind of cute, but I had no idea the kind of risk we were at.」
「我一直認為蝙蝠很可愛，但我不知道我們面臨著什麼樣的風險。」
Since her husband’s death, Juanita said she and the rest of the family are getting vaccinated — just in case.
胡安妮塔說，自從她丈夫去世後，她和她的家人都在接種疫苗，以防萬一。
The last time someone died of rabies in Utah was 1944.
猶他州最近一次狂犬病死亡病例是在1944年。
According to the CDC, there have only been 23 cases of human rabies reported in the US between 2008 and 2017.
美國疾病控制與預防中心的數據顯示，從2008年到2017年，美國只有23例人類狂犬病病例。
來源：紐約郵報 愛語吧
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