Do animals get infected by HIV like human being do?

Answer 1

Some animals can suffer from a similar viral-induced immunodeficiency syndrome. While not caused by the exact same virus, feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) infects and causes a similar syndrome in domestic cats and there are forms of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), one of which causes an immunodeficiency syndrome in chimpanzees, another which infects other non-chimpanzee primates that are closely related to HIV. These monkey viruses are quite closely related to HIV structurally and genetically and there have been studies suggesting that the first HIV infections arose from a group of hunter gatherer tribes in Africa that killed chimpanzees for their meat.

Answer 2

HIV virus can be found in Chimps. But they have developed an immune system to battle this virus. Viral relatives of HIV can be found in sheeps and pets.

Answer 3

yeah animals do get infested by hiv, they are the ones that broutht hiv into existence. hiv came to existence when somone ate a dog that was infested by hiv.

Answer 4

Of course they do
Didn't you know that actually this disease was transferred from a gorilla by a man-to gorilla sex! this hiv has taken more complicated ways and grown in human bodies

Answer 5

Yes. Chimpanzees do.

There is also a form of the virus which affects monkees. This may have been the source of the virus which mutated, and now affects humans.

Answer 6

HIV is common in cats but they get a feline version.

Answer 7

HIV came from monkeys (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus)

(or was it apes?)

Answer 8

Remember they traced the origins to a species of monkey.

Answer 9

It started from Chimpanzees. i wonder how it got transferred to humans. Some people just can do any nasty thing!!!!

Answer 10

Yes.