A Massachusetts woman was left on the hook for thousands of dollars in medical bills after a bat flew into her open mouth during a stargazing trip to Arizona last year.

Erica Kahn and her father were snapping long-exposure photos of the nighttime landscape at Horseshoe Bend when a wild bat managed to wedge itself between Kahn’s camera and her face.

“As I was screaming, part of the bat unfortunately went in my mouth (fun fact, they taste earthy and a little sweet!),” Kahn recalled on a GoFundMe page to help cover her subsequent medical bills. She said her father, a doctor, recommended she go to an emergency room to receive post-exposure prophylaxis for rabies due to the close contact.

But there was a catch: The 33-year-old biomedical engineer was temporarily uninsured, having opted

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