If a friend has aids or HIV and plays with your dog will your dog get it if the dog bit the person ?

Answer 1

No, your dog cannot get HIV from your friend. If a mosquito bit your friend and then bit you, you couldn't contract HIV that way either. HIV is not spread by insects or animals. The virus can only live in human cells.

Here's a great website that has a lot of information on HIV, how you CAN get it, and how you can't.

http://www.hopetesting.org/faq/hiv_faqs.htm

Answer 2

HIV is a primate virus. The H stands for Human - in simians it's SIV.

I'm not aware of any cases of HIV being transmitted to a dog (canine). Dogs have a different immune system, so I doubt it would be transmissible. Ask your vet if you want to be 100% sure.

Answer 3

HIV is the acronym for Human Immunodeficiency Virus- Not Canine. Do people get Parvo? What if I bite a dog with Parvo- would that give me parvo? If I bite a cat with Feline AIDs, will I have Feline AIDs?

Answer 4

if your dog bit the person, then your dog is violent and should probably be put down :( sorry... however if it is not required by law in your county, then your dog could possibly get hiv but i dont believe that the virus affects dogs. but then if your dog bit you... yeah that could be bad.

Answer 5

HIV is transmitted only by blood and sexually......not by bites of dogs

Non-Sexual Routes of Transmission
Currently, the main non-sexual ways that HIV is transmitted are:

sharing needles with injection drug users
mother to child
Sharing injection needles: This is an extremely high risk behavior as an injection needle can pass blood directly from one person's bloodstream to another. It is a very efficient way to transmit a blood-borne virus. Please see the section on Injection Drug Risk Reduction for more detailed information on injected drug use and ways to reduce the risk of becoming infected with HIV.

Needle sticks: A study of over 2,000 health care workers has been underway for several years to assess the risk of their exposure to people with AIDS. Over 1,000 of these workers had a needle stick accident with a needle that had been used on a person living with HIV. The rest had some sort of mucous membrane exposure, such as being splashed in the face with blood or vomit.

Of all these people, only 21 show signs of being infected with HIV (as determined by the antibody test). One of these people was a nurse who had multiple needle stick accidents, including one where she tripped and fell on the depressor of a syringe full of blood, and the entire contents entered her body. Another was a lab worker who was working with a test tube of infected blood which broke and cut his finger, exposing the infected blood to his bloodstream. This study shows that HIV is quite difficult to get.

Blood transfusions: Blood donations in the United States have been screened for antibody to HIV type-1 since March 1985 and HIV type-2 since June 1992. This practice has almost eliminated the risk of getting HIV through a blood transfusion. Assuring the safety of the blood supply is a high-tech process requiring at least nine specific tests; proper processing, labeling, and storage; and vigilant quality control. Routine donations are now tested for HIV and hepatitis C through nucleic acid testing (NAT).

Hemophilia treatments: Hemophilia is a genetic disease in which people (almost all men) lack the ability to clot blood. To control the condition, hemophiliacs take Factor VIII, a clotting factor. Each dose of Factor VIII comes from the pooled blood of many donors. Currently, over 90% of hemophiliacs in the U.S. have been infected with HIV because of receiving contaminated Factor VIII in the early years of the epidemic. Factor VIII is now heat-treated to kill the virus. In addition, there are new synthetic products that do not pose any risk for HIV and which accomplish the same function.

Other blood products: Besides whole blood, platelets (red blood cells) have transmitted the virus. Current blood screening, however, should prevent all but a very, very few cases. No other blood products are suspected of transmitting HIV. Gamma globulin or hepatitis B vaccines do not transmit HIV. Gamma globulin, however, can temporarily transmit HIV antibodies, although not the virus itself. These antibodies will disappear within a few months.

Donor insemination: Donor semen is checked for HIV antibodies when the semen is collected. The semen is then frozen. The donor is required to come back after six months for a second HIV test, to confirm the initial HIV screening. The semen is not used before the procedure is completed

Answer 6

No HIV means human imunal diffisancy (i think) so the dog can't contract it

Answer 7

Although there is evidence that HIV first came from Monkey's, there is no evidence that I know of that the virus affects other mammals.

Answer 8

no dogs can't transmit HIV. so don't worry. just worry if the dogs got rabies. those are pretty bad.

Answer 9

Help me out here. whom do you care more about?; your friend or your dog? Probably no more so than your friend catching rabies from your dog. What's the incidence of that happening?

Answer 10

Just avoid the possibility!!!
Keep your dog in another part of your residence!!!