On Saturday, the CDC said that they are working with the Florida Department of Health and also the FDA to investigate a dead bat that was found in a packaged salad purchased from a Walmart store in the Florida. On Saturday, the Fresh Express issued a recall of a limited number of cases of the Organic Marketside Spring Mix which was sold to Walmart stores in the Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Salads were sold in a clear container with the production code of G089B19 and also best-if-used-by date of April 14, 2017 which located on the front label.

All the remaining packages of salad from same lot have been removed from all store locations where the salad was sold.

Two people in the Florida reported that they ate some of the salad before the bat was found. The dead bat was sent to the CDC rabies lab for testing. The CDC said that the deteriorated condition of the bat did not allow for them to definitively rule out whether the bat had rabies.

The officials said transmission of rabies by eating a rabid animal is extremely uncommon, and also the virus does not survive very long outside of the infected animal.

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In the present circumstance, risk of transmission of the rabies is considered to be very low, but because it is not zero, the two people who ate salad from the package which contained the bat were recommended to begin the post-exposure rabies treatment. Both the people report being in good health and neither has any signs of rabies.

The officials said that the consumers who may have already purchased the product should discard it. The CDC also recommends that anyone who ate the recalled salad product and found the animal material in it to contact their health department for evaluation.

A full refund of the money is available where purchased or by calling the Fresh Express Consumer Response Center toll-free at (800) 242-5472 during the hours of 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern Time.

Mrudula Duddempudi.