National Park Service issues warning after California woman is bitten by bat with rabies

Park rangers are reminding people to avoid touching or feeding wildlife after a California woman was bitten by a bat with rabies. 

On April 28 a woman working at a general store in Death Valley tried to move a bat that was "behaving strangely" atop a garbage can outside the store, National Park Service said in a news release. The bat ended up biting her through her nitrile gloves.

The bat was taken in by the National Park Service and the California Department of Public Health to be tested for rabies and on May 2 the woman was informed that the bat did have rabies, officials said.