OMG! This is scary!!

CBS) Four children have died and more than 500 people have been attacked by vampire bats in a remote Amazon region in Peru. The country's health ministry has rushed emergency teams to the Urakusa community in northeastern Peru, close to the border with Ecuador, according to BBC News.

The authorities are trying to battle an outbreak of rabies spread by the bat bites, and have given vaccines to more than 500 people attacked by the bloodsucking mammals.

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Published on August 14, 2010 06:22
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