Avoid touching injured bats during summer heatwave

Updated March 23 2021 - 11:37pm, first published December 4 2020 - 9:36am
Hands off: Leave the handling of bats - even cute babies - to trained and vaccinated WIRES staff as they could be carrying a deadly virus. Picture: GREG TOTMAN
Hands off: Leave the handling of bats - even cute babies - to trained and vaccinated WIRES staff as they could be carrying a deadly virus. Picture: GREG TOTMAN

Residents are being reminded to avoid handling or touching injured or dead flying foxes and microbats, as we come into summer when bats may be more active.

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