# Rabid Bats

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabid-bats/480382>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [January 8, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabid-bats/480382 "2009-01-08T15:47:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![SeanArenas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeanArenas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeanArenas)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabid-bats/480382/1 "2009-01-08T15:47:25Z")

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> Even if only one half of one percent of bats are rabid, it’s been estimated that the Mexican free-tailed bat population of Texas alone was over 100 million in 1957. One half of one percent is still a lot of bats.

But if you’re surrounded by x number of bats, and you’re bitten by one of them, is the chance that you were bitten by a rabid bat 1/2 of 1%? Or are rabid bats more likely to munch on you?

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