Were you exposed?: The answer lies in your ability to be certain no exposure occurred. If you are certain you did not get a bite/scratch or ingest the bat..Then you are likely fine. If at any time you were not aware of your surrounding while in the room with the bat (sleeping, drugs/alcohol) then you should get the vaccine and immunoglobulin for rabies. Was it a fruit bat as these are associated with ebola?
Answered 6/21/2015
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Not in India: Ebola has not been reported to be in India currently. So you do not have this illness. Bats are probably the most common cause of rabies but usually this is through a bite from a rabid bat into your skin. The bat you found could have died from rabies but unless you handled it and broke through your skin in that process, then you have not gotten rabies.
Answered 11/11/2014
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