As per recent reports, it has been revealed that a dog or any other animal suffering from infection, staggering and per chance having a mouthful of foam is expected to launch into an assault for no obvious or evident reason.

As a result, it is highly recommended that people must step back in case they encounter such a situation. Pet vaccinations and various medical attempts have tried hard and failed to combat the issue to good effect. However, human casualty due to rabies was forced out of the equation effectively. But during the last week, the last rabies death in Massachusetts used to be said to have been transpired in the year 1935.

Not anymore, as on Monday a man from Barnstable died in a Boston hospital due to the same infection. As per reports, he was victimized by an assault which came his way rather unexpectedly, and in a manner for which there was very meager to almost no warning or protection persisting anywhere.

Reports have revealed that a bat infected by rabies enter his house all of a sudden and bit him, and there are even possibilities that the man would not have even realized that he has been bitten since such kind of bites generally tend to have the size and emergence of nothing more than a pin prick.

The 63-year-old Kevin Galvin was a resident of Marstons Mills’ Barnstable village and he died on Monday at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

By any means, merely spotting a bat near you “should not necessarily be a cause for alarm and does not necessarily mean that an exposure to rabies has occurred”, informed Jennifer L. Manley, a Spokesperson from the regional Department of Public Health (DPH). “Less than 1 percent of bats in the wild are likely to be infected with rabies at any given time”, she added.