Twenty-two students from two different Valley schools are getting rabies shots after handling bats that tested positive for rabies.

Of those students, 20 go to Cesar E. Chavez Community School in south Phoenix. Those kids handled a dead bat a student brought to school last Friday.

The other two students are kindergarteners at Scottsdale's Laguna Elementary School. They were found playing with a dead bat last week.

Because both animals tested positive for rabies, the kids have having to get rabies vaccinations.

Post-exposure treatment is usually a series of six shots -- one of immune globulin (disease-fighting proteins) and five of vaccine -- over a 28-day period.

Health officials are warning people about the dangers of rabies, urging people to beware of wild animals acting strangely. That includes normally nocturnal animals that are out and about during the day.

A girl in Gila County was recently attacked by a rabid bobcat. The animal scratched two men who tried to subdue it.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.