OM wrote:
If you get bit by one locally,
you still go in for shots, but the local quacks aren't as worried
about it as they were ten years ago. The bat-sperts can't explain it,
but the risk isn't as great as it is in other areas where bats are
plentiful.

In the book "Bat Bomb" there was speculation that constant low level
exposure to bat feces dust could allow one to build up a resistance to
rabies, rather like if one had been vaccinated against it.

Pat