The child, who lived with family in the Brantford region of Ontario, died after being infected with the virus in the Timiskaming region. The case marks the first domestically acquired instance of human rabies in Ontario since 1967. The child, whose name, age and other information have not been released, was in a hospital last month, the CBC said.

"The parents looked, didn't see any signs of a bite or scratches or saliva and didn't seek getting a rabies vaccine." Last mont

The death, which was reported on Friday, is only the fifth fatal human rabies case in Minnesota since 1975, health officials said.

"They woke up with a bat in their bedroom," a Canadian health official said of a child in Ontario. The parents saw no signs of a bite or scratches so did not take their child to receive the rabies vaccine,

The parents did not notice the bat that flew into their child's bedroom, resulting in the child dying from rabies contracted from the animal. Canadian media are raising the alarm as this is the first such case in nearly sixty years.

A tragic case in Ontario, Canada, has health officials on alert after a child succumbed to a rabies virus they likely contracted from a bat encountered while sleeping. There were no evident signs of injury,