California middle school teacher Leah Seneng, who died a month after a bat bit her inside a classroom, was remembered by friends and colleagues as "dedicated" and a "lover of life."

Leah Seneng, a Central California teacher, died from rabies after she was bitten last month by a bat that she found in her classroom.

A central California middle school teacher died after contracting rabies from a suspected bat bite, local health officials said.

Art teacher Leah Seneng, 60, was trying to help a bat find its way out of her classroom when she was apparently bitten. She died a month later from rabies.

Leah Seneng, a 60-year-old California teacher, died from rabies after she was bitten last month by a bat that she found in her classroom.

Seneng had tried to save a bat she found lying in her classroom at Bryant Middle School in Dos Palos last month.

Fresno resident Leah Seneng was reportedly killed by a rabies infection that she likely caught from a bat that had wandered into her classroom.

A California teacher has reportedly died of rabies after she was bitten by a bat she found in her classroom. Fresno County has confirmed one of its residents passed away from the disease after a suspected bat bite, but declined to identify the victim.

A California art teacher has died one month after she was apparently bitten and infected with rabies by a bat she found inside her classroom.

A California art teacher died of rabies November 22, about a month after apparently being infected by a bat she found in her classroom.

Leah Seneng, 61, carried the winged mammal out of her classroom and released it, not knowing she had been bitten and fatally infected.