A friend of Leah Seneng, the California middle school teacher who died weeks after being bitten by a bat in her classroom, recalls visiting her in the hospital shortly before her death.

“They tried everything...but it just wasn't enough," Leah Seneng's friend tells PEOPLE Laura Splotch Leah Seneng, a 60-year-old California school teacher, died on Nov. 22, weeks after she was ...

Leah Seneng, a 60-year-old California school teacher, died on Nov. 22, weeks after she was bitten by a bat in her classroom Her friend Laura Splotch tells PEOPLE that she was able to spend some ...

Leah Seneng, a 60-year-old California school teacher, died on Nov. 22, weeks after she was bitten by a bat in her classroom Her friend Laura Splotch tells PEOPLE that she was able to spend some time ...

60-year-old Leah Seneng died at a hospital in late November, around a month after the bite, which the California Department of Public Health said likely originated from a “presumably rabid bat.” ...

Leah Seneng, 60, an art teacher who taught at Bryant Middle School in Dos Palos, encountered the animal in October on the floor of her classroom early in the morning before her students arrived ...

DOS PALOS, Calif. (AP) — A central California teacher died last month after she was bitten by a bat inside her classroom that presumably had rabies, officials and the woman's friend said.

In the wake of Leah Seneng’s death on Nov. 22, public health officials are warning the public about the dangers of bats, which are the most common source of human rabies in the U.S. Even though ...