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AN EIGHT-year-old Queensland boy has succumbed to a rare disease carried by bats.
The boy was bitten or scratched by a bat in north Queensland in December and fell ill around three weeks ago with the Australian bat Lyssavirus.
The ABC reports the boy died late yesterday afternoon in Brisbane's Mater Hospital.
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