By Richard Shears Eight-year-old Lincoln Boucher took no notice of the scratch he got from a swooping bat. The boy carried on as normal at the Queensland Whitsunday islands resort where his parents worked. But hours later Lincoln was frothing at the mouth, writhing with seizures and tearing out the IV lines doctors had inserted into him as a rabies-like disease tore through his body. Eight-year-old Lincoln Boucher spent two months in hospital fighting the rabies-like disease lyssavirus before doctors found out what his illness was Lincoln's parents Michelle Flynn and Colin Boucher told Australia's 60 Minutes that their son could have survived if he'd told them about getting scratched by a bat
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Lincoln Boucher was scratched by a bat at a Whitsundays island resort
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Hours later, lyssavirus left him convulsing and tearing out IV lines in hospital
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By the time his sister remembered the scratch to doctors, it was too late
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His parents Michelle Flynn and Colin Boucher spoke to 60 Minutes
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