Zoonotic incidences

The first case occurred in November 1996, when 39-year-old Patricia Padget, an animal caregiver in Rockhampton, sustained several scratches from a bite from a yellow-bellied sheath-tailed bat in her care. She reported to the hospital four to five weeks later for shoulder pain, dizziness, vomiting, headache, fever, and chills. While hospitalised, her condition rapidly deteriorated, with slurred speech, diplopia