If you read the article you will learn that sometimes people do not know that they have received a scratch, or that they encounter bat guano or urine on already broken skin. I don’t know how you don’t know, but they mentioned an example of a baby.
The young girl, who is the only known case of survival from bat spread rabies, found the bat flopping around on the floor of the church where she was attending choir practice. She picked it up by the wing and took it outside. Somehow the rabies infected her. She survived but has suffered terrible consequences. She has had to learn everything over again, including how to feed herself. She finally was able to go back to college and graduate, but she is still disabled.
I’m not defending bats or belittling a bat bite. I’m saying that bats are much more apt to be afflicted than the animals we traditionally worry about.It doesn’t kill the bats which is why it is endemic.If they transfer it to people- rabies is rabies. The surprise and consternation that the local bats might be infected is misplaced. Warnings against bats should be as endemic as the rabies they carry.