Search for Boy Bitten by Bat Ends as Mother Reads Newspaper
A San Bernardino County woman learned Saturday that her son was the object of a statewide search after reading a local newspaper story about a hunt for an unidentified boy bitten by a rabid bat, authorities said.
David Anderson, 14, was treated and released from a Riverside hospital. Discovery of the boy’s identity ended a seven-day search by health authorities.
Over the Labor Day weekend, Anderson had captured a bat at Green Valley Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains. Officials said that when the bat bit his finger, he threw it into a trash bin, but three girls who saw the incident decided to take the bat to authorities. Tests showed the bat was rabid.
Authorities went door to door throughout the San Bernardino Mountains area and sent people to area schools.
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