LEESBURG Va. -- Officials notified ...

LEESBURG Va. -- Officials notified parents of nearly 1000 Girl spys that their daughters may have been expos to rabies at a Virginia camp.

There is sole a small chance that any of the girls were infected at bats that were found in any of the sleeping shelters at Camp Potomac timbers Loudoun County officials said.

on the other hand authorities are erring on the side of caution because about 1 percent of bats carry rabies, a viral disease that is incurable one time symptoms appear. Bats can bite children in their nap without waking them.

"We think the risk is extremely small, moreover we can't say there is no risk," Loudoun shire Health Department Director David Goodfriend said.

The Loudoun health department sent alphabetic characters to the parents of about 950 girls who attended the camp by the agency of July 22. Most have declined to gain the vaccine.

Health officials commended that 16 girls begin receiving a monthlong series of bullets They include children authorities think were chiefly likely to have come in contact with a bat.

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