How do dogs and cats get AIDS?
2007-04-30 12:47:45 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Can they even get infected with AIDS?
2007-04-30 12:48:10 · update #1
There is no conclusive proof that a canine retrovirus exists. However, there have been university lab studies done on the blood of dogs and how they react to the human virus (HIV/AIDS) and other equivalent viruses.
In 50% of cases using an "immunoblotting" technique, the university tested the dog's blood and it reacted to the human version of the virus. Viruses used were human
HIV, monkey SlV(mac), cat FIV, and goat CAEV.
The results of this suggest that dogs may become infected as their blood can cross react with other HIV proteins but this is in no way conclusive and it definately doesn't state if the dogs physiologically would have the same reaction as humans or cats would given the same virus.
2007-05-01 05:22:04 · answer #1 · answered by yonae12 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Human AIDS and HIV is primate based in straightforward terms, you are able to't get it from dogs or cats and that they could't get it from you. The cat version isn't close adequate to the human version in any respect, if it became into they had be employing cats interior the medical study. they are not. In cats an immune compromised condition is named FIV -- tom cat immuno virus inflicting it. it could't be transmitted to dogs or people. To be transfered to a distinctive cat the cat with it may desire to bite one without and the saliva has to flow right into a shifting blood grant. The virus lives in straightforward terms some seconds exterior the physique so it is not transmitted via mutual grooming, shared food/water bowls or muddle packing containers.
2016-10-14 05:18:14 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a feline form of AIDS, but not a canine form as far as I know. Feline AIDS (FIV) is not uncommon in cats - wild cats suffer from it as well as domestic ones.
Cats catch feline AIDS the same way we catch our form of AIDS - through blood to blood contact. It is most often transmitted through blood, when cats fight. Humans and cats cannot transmit AIDS between each other - they are different forms of the virus that are species-specific.
Please read this article for more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIV
Chalice
2007-04-30 12:54:34 · answer #3 · answered by Chalice 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dogs do not get AIDS. Cats have FIV - Feline Immunodeficiency virus - which is often called Feline AIDS. Saliva to blood (through biting) is generally accepted as the typical route of transmission, but it is not impossible that cats who live together, eat from the same food bowl, and groom each other, could transmit it to each other from these activities. Unlike HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus) there is a vaccine for FIV.
2007-04-30 12:54:18 · answer #4 · answered by Pythoness 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, dogs and cats cannot get AIDS. AIDS is a human disease that connot be transferred to animals.
2007-04-30 14:57:22 · answer #5 · answered by Prodigy556 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not exactly sure if they can get them, but in this world of ours, almost anything is possible unforutnatly.
2007-04-30 12:53:06 · answer #6 · answered by Mira 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they don't, althought rabbits can get syphillis from each other........not the same virus we get but it has the same symptoms
2007-04-30 13:57:34 · answer #7 · answered by Olivia W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lmao dont think so swettie
2007-04-30 12:50:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋