How common are bats with rabies and should you worry

Rabid bats in our area, as well as blood-sucking vampires from the movies, give bats a bad name. But around here, bats eat insects and nectar and are very beneficial to us nonflying mammals.
Rabies and bats
Bats can have rabies, but it is extremely rare for that to impact humans.
The chance of getting rabies from a bat is very small — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there are one or two cases a year in the U.S. But bats are the most common source of human rabies in the