Four out of the seven rabid bats reported so far in Los Angeles County in 2023 were found in the Santa Clarita Valley, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Rabies is a fatal viral disease affecting humans and pets that is transmitted by bite or scratch from infected animals, most commonly rabid bats in Los Angeles ...

As a matter of course, we advise our clients to keep themselves up to speed, and educated on the different threats to their property. We’ll often arrive at a house where the homeowner doesn’t even know what animal has made its way into his home. Or how to handle the situation correctly. This is why it’s important to ask what ...

Bats are widely-known by most people to be the carriers of disease and all kinds of nasty maladies. Not only do bats scare many people, but they also have the potential to kill them through their diseases they carry. With the wide variety of diseases bats carry and how they can affect your health, it is important to exercise caution ...

Ten rabid bats have been found in Santa Clarita so far this year, with three discovered in September alone, prompting a warning from public health officials. Across Los Angeles County, 34 rabid bats have been found in 2019 — nearly one-third in the Santa Clarita Valley — with the most recent sighting after a live bat was left outside the ...

Veterinarians are cautioning Santa Clarita residents after a rabid bat was discovered in Valencia Monday. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. The animal was found by Los Angeles County Animal Control officials near the intersection of Via Vista and Via Solano on Oct. 30. Shortly after, notices went out to local veterinary ...

County officials are looking into a recent claim that a woman was bitten by a bat while attending the Concerts in the Park series in Central Park. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. “A woman was bit by a bat in central park during last week’s concert in the park,” said Santa ...

The Santa Clarita Valley’s first rabid bat of 2016 has been discovered in Castaic, county officials said Wednesday. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. The bat was found on the ground outside of a residential garage in Castaic earlier this month, and is the fourth case to be reported in Los Angeles ...

The Santa Clarita Valley is once again the leader in rabid bats with two of seven rabid bats reported in Los Angeles County this year. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Bats are the most common animals to carry rabies in Los Angeles County but about one percent of bats are infected with ...

Leon Worden | SCVNEWS.COM  Just when you thought “rabid bat” season was over, two more showed up in the Santa Clarita Valley in time for Halloween.  Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. After a lull in September, in October a Santa Clarita resident spotted a bat hanging from an eave of ...

What do bats and toothed whales have in common?  Certainly not size, not habitat, and not even how they get from one place to another.  But they both hunt using sound waves to locate their prey, a technique known as echolocation.  A recent report from the University of Southern Denmark concludes “that bats and toothed whales produce signals for echolocation ...