16 AUG: US health authorities are trying to track down 15 people who were aboard a flight last week during which a bat flew around the cabin of the aircraft.
The authorities want to find out out if the travellers need protection against possible rabies infection.
They’ve already contacted 35 other passengers and none needs treatment.
The bat suddenly appeared in the cabin of an Atlantic Southeast Airlines plane en route to Atlanta from Madison, Wisconsin.
As passenger shrieked and ducked for cover, the flight returned to Madison, where airport workers coaxed the creature off the plane.
But no one knows whether it had rabies because it was allowed to fly away.
