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A 6-year-old girl is recovering after being bitten by a rabid bat outside her Wisconsin home \u2014 before her brother killed the animal with a homemade \u201cBraveheart\u201d-inspired sword, her family and health officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Cecilia \u201cCece\u201d Kale was playing on a tree in front of the family\u2019s home in Tigerton, about 60 miles west of Green Bay, last week when the winged mammal attacked her left thigh.<\/p>\n

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The girl\u2019s brothers \u2014 Nicklas, 11,and Camden, 16 \u2014 then jumped into action to get the bat off their sister before killing it with a homemade blade, their mother, Elizabeth Kale, told NBC News. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd here comes Camden and he\u2019s like, \u2018No!\u2019 and he\u2019s got the pole and he just knocks [the bat] off [Cece] and then Nicklas grabs it, and he just starts killing the thing,\u201d she said. \u201cNick made the homemade sword. We love \u2018Braveheart.\u2019 \u201d <\/p>\n

She added that her son made the sword the day of the attack. In the days since, she said Nicklas has been regularly quoting lines from the 1995 Mel Gibson movie.<\/p>\n

The bat tested positive for rabies, and the family consented to Cece receiving the life-saving shots less than 48 hours after the attack, Kale said, even though they oppose mandated immunizations.<\/p>\n

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While Kale said the family would\u2019ve opted for treatment had the bat not been captured and tested, she was grateful for the doctors and county health officials, who patiently explained the treatment plan.<\/p>\n

Rabies is nearly 100% fatal if left untreated but is almost certainly nonfatal with a series of five shots. <\/p>\n

Nick Mau, health officer with the Shawano-Menominee County Health Department, confirmed the attack and estimated that his office deals with about one rabid bat attack on a human each year.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis one\u2019s getting all the [attention] because a young individual was exposed to a bat that did indeed test positive, so it\u2019s not uncommon,\u201d Mau said.<\/p>\n

Mau said his office regularly interacts with patients who may be hesitant to receive vaccines and other widely accepted medical treatments.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand that there\u2019s lots of different viewpoints on different treatments, different immunizations, childhood vaccines or, in this case, rabies prophylaxis,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat our job is to do is to communicate risk, what\u2019s recommended by the medical community, what\u2019s recommended by the state health department and the CDC.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Despite the painful shot, Kale said, her daughter still loves playing outside and doesn\u2019t seem to be fazed by the attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s just so brave and has a stronger constitution than the rest of us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Kale added that she won\u2019t stop her eight children from enjoying the outdoors despite the local bat population.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to live out here to give our kids land and homeschool and to raise them as we would have in 1850 and to give them that type of lifestyle,\u201d she added. \u201cAnd they\u2019re thriving.\u201d<\/p>\n

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