CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) _ A bat made its way into a Corpus Christi children’s hospital, causing a scare when it briefly flew around in a patient’s room.
Officials at Driscoll Children’s Hospital believe the bat got in through an open air vent early Sunday. Hospital staff were in the process of closing doors on the eighth floor when the bat zipped into the patient’s room.
The patient’s mother shooed it out the door, and then it was believed to have exited the hospital through the elevator shaft.
The bat didn’t bite anybody.
The hospital says the child, mother and father in the room were vaccinated for rabies as a precaution.