Grand Erie Public Health officials are urging caution after a bat found in the Brantford, Brant County area tested positive for rabies, making it the second bat to test positive this summer.

In a statement released Friday, public health officials said an individual’s exposure to the virus is considered low risk because there wasn’t any contact with the bat.

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In June, GEPH officials reported that a person was receiving treatmen t after exposure to a bat that tested positive for the rabies virus. The individual received the post exposure rabies prophylaxis, which includes rabies immune globulin and a series of rabies vaccine.

A Brantford-Brant child died last September after contracting the rabies virus from a suspected exposure to a bat in the Gowganda area, betwee

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