A friend of Leah Seneng, the California middle school teacher who died weeks after being bitten by a bat in her classroom, ...

Leah Seneng, a beloved sixty-year-old middle school art teacher in California, lost her life to rabies this past November.

Being a kind-hearted person, she didn’t want to hurt any animals. So she just scooped it up," a friend said. "She thought it ...

The Merced County Department of Public Health tells PEOPLE that an investigation into Leah Seneng's death is ongoing ...

A California art teacher died of rabies November 22, about a month after apparently being infected by a bat she found in her ...

A California middle school teacher has died after contracting rabies via a bat that flew into her classroom. Leah Seneng, 60, ...

A central California teacher died last month after she was bitten by a bat inside her classroom that presumably had rabies ...

Leah Seneng, 61, carried the winged mammal out of her classroom and released it, not knowing she had been bitten and fatally ...

The 60-year-old woman tried to scoop up a bat found in her classroom and take it outside when the animal, which presumably ...

Art teacher Leah Seneng, 60, was trying to help a bat find its way out of her classroom when she was apparently bitten. She ...

A California art teacher has died one month after she was apparently bitten and infected with rabies by a bat she found ...

Friends say Leah Seneng, 60, found a bat in her classroom in mid-October and tried to help it get back outside. "I don't know if she thought it was dead or what, 'cause it was laying around her ...