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Should I seek medical help regarding two puncture marks?

Woke up three days ago and found two tiny puncture marks in my right hand. I have seen bats fly outside the house (I am currently in the Balkans/Europe) in the evening and am worried it could be a bat bite. I did not feel pain during the night or after I woke up, nor did I see a bat in the house. The bite marks are not painful and look like scabs right know. The skin around them is a tiny bit red. What could it be? Should I seek medical help? Am I over analyzing it?
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I guess I would see a doctor but I doubt you got rabies. It is suspicious though that you got bite marks like that and there were bats outside. They can easily get inside the house and you not know they bit you. I would talk to a health care person about this to make sure. Usually, if you wake up with a bat in the room you have to get vaccinated because you don't often know you have been bitten. So since you are not sure here it is hard to know. How big is the bite mark apart? A bat bite is bigger than a bat. Spider bite is about a millimeter apart and a bat bite is about a centimeter apart.

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mkh9
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