A man died from rabies after waking up to a bat in his room. It's Illinois' first human case of the virus in nearly 70 years

A man in northeastern Illinois died from rabies about a month after apparently being infected by a bat he found in his room, marking the first human case of the virus in the state since 1954, health officials said Tuesday.

source https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/29/us/illinois-rabies-death/index.html