Show Warning Dont Don't Touch Sick Birds Residents have been warned against picking up sick birds and animals because of the possibility of rabies The warning was issued last week by the state health officers officers of of- after a bat picked up by a young Salt Lake woman and taken home to her children children chil chil- dren was found to have the disease The bat had fallen out of a tree on West Capitol The woman took the animal home hom e for her children to see seed Four members of the famIl y who handled the sick bat we wen r given rabies anti-rabies vaccine the Utah State Department o 0 Divisional Laboratories de determined determined determined the bat was rabid Dr Alton A. A Jenkins o 0 othe othe the State Health said any rabid animal is 9 2 menace because it can trans transmit transmit transmit mit the disease to other animals ani mals mats and humans |