{"id":9912,"date":"2025-07-16T13:21:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9912"},"modified":"2025-07-16T13:21:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:21:59","slug":"new-details-revealed-about-father-of-2-who-died-after-catching-fatal-bat-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/16\/new-details-revealed-about-father-of-2-who-died-after-catching-fatal-bat-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"New Details Revealed About Father-of-2 Who Died After Catching Fatal Bat Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/new-details-revealed-about-man-died-of-fatal-bat-virus-11773147\">People<\/a> A man in his 50s died after contracting the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/man-rare-bat-critical-condition-bitten-months-ago-11765114\">first confirmed case of Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV)<\/a>&nbsp;in New South Wales, Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\">Craig Nolte died on July 3 after falling critically ill from a bat bite the he sustained eight months prior, his wife Robyn Nolte confirmed in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1FEDnZi1J8\/\">post<\/a>&nbsp;on Facebook on Tuesday, July 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\">\u201cI said goodbye to Craig on the 3rd of July to a very quick case of lyssavirus,\u201d Robyn wrote on the Ballina Community Facebook page. She noted that her husband was treated with \u201cpost-exposure prophylaxis injections\u201d after being bitten by a bat months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While this should have prevented the deadly and untreatable illness from developing, New South Wales Health confirmed that he had been diagnosed with it in a July 2&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.nsw.gov.au\/news\/Pages\/20250702_01.aspx\">release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"x UFyZI  S KT\"><!-- x UFyZI  S KT --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People A man in his 50s died after contracting the&nbsp;first confirmed case of Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV)&nbsp;in New South Wales, Australia. Craig Nolte died on July 3 after falling critically ill from a bat bite the he sustained eight months prior, his wife Robyn Nolte confirmed in a&nbsp;post&nbsp;on Facebook on Tuesday, July 15. \u201cI said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9913,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912\/revisions\/9913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}