When I was little I remember rescuing a small bat, brought it around in my hands for a good hour. I guess I was very lucky :/

Not necessarily. Which country were you in and when was this?

(I don't much like this Internet confusion where half the time people don't know what country they're reading about. At least this article has "Canadian" as the first word of the title. Here in Britain I think rabies in bats is a recent thing and even today rabies is very rare in bats.)