A 6-year-old Florida boy undergoing experimental treatment after being diagnosed with rabies has died.
Ryker Roque passed away in an Orlando hospital, his father said Monday.
Roque was scratched by a sick bat that his father, Henry Roque, had found, put it in a bucket, and told his son not to touch it.
"Apparently he put his hand in there and touched it and he said it only scratched him, so I frantically googled it real quick and it says to wash his hands with soap, hot water for five minutes," Henry Roque told NBC News.
When Ryker complained of numb fingers and a headache a week later, he was rushed to the hospital.
Ryker was put into a medically induced coma, forcing his body to create its own specialized antibodies to fight off the illness.
The boy was given an experimental treatment, known as the Milwaukee Protocol, to try and fight off the rabies.
The treatment has only worked twice in the U.S. and 18 times around the world.