[Guest]

I just wanted to know if bats usually bite people and if they do would you feel them bite?

[Guest]

Bats are generally not interested in biting people; they eat insects. However, they occasionally DO bite people. Sometimes this is circumstantial (they are stuck in your bedroom), but may also be because the bat is disoriented. Rabies is endemic in the bat population, and so they remain a threat for transmission to humans.

When people are infected with rabies it is possible to determine what kind of animal passed it one to them by "fingerprinting" the virus. In very few cases of bat transmission have people actually reported a bat bite, and it seems likely that bites are easy to miss (they have very small teeth). Many local health officials have criteria for exposure to bats that includes sleeping in a room with a bat for just this reason, and will undertake post-exposure treatment based on this alone.
[quote]I just wanted to know if bats usually bite people and if they do would you feel them bite?[/quote]