Can you get AIDS from an animal?

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I have a welsh corgi mixed with 1/4 queensland healer, named Cinnamon. Okay so today my mom accidentally stepped on my dog's paw, and she (the dog) yelped. So I made the dog stand still so I could look at her paw. Well my dog has had a wart on her paw for a while now. And the vet said it's benign and isn't really doing anything and it will cost a couple thousand to remove so we haven't removed it. So I was looking at her paw and the wart was bleeding a little bit, so we cleaned it up with a Kleenex and put some colloidal silver on it. In this process I got a little bit of blood on my hand. Should I be worried? After all historically AIDs originally came from men practicing bestiality with sheep. I washed my hands good with soap. I don't have any open cuts. My dog has had all her shots and doesn't have AIDs that I know of and I recently got a tetanus booster. Also does anyone have any ideas of what to do about my dog's wart? Over the counter wart removers don't work, and she won't leave a rubber band on it or wear a sock out of the rag pile. My grandma has suggested putting a nail in boiling water and then carefully putting the head of the nail on the wart. She says that's what they would do to the dairy cows when she was little. We don't want to do that because we don't want to accidentally burn the dog instead of the wart, and we're not sure the dog will let us as she is afraid of the vacuum.

Update:

I'm an English major undergrad. I'm not studying to be a doctor or anything. Calm down people.

Update 2:

Also most of the cost to remove the wart is for the anesthesia. The vet would want to put her out and because she is such a small dog there is a risk of her not waking back up.

amccoy1962 · Accepted Answer

First of all dogs don't get AIDS, cats get AIDS but if not one that effects human, it's nothing like human AIDS. You have nothing to worry about that!
Couple of thousands of dollars to remove a benign wart?????? You definitely need to find yourself another vet!! Don't need to try homemade solutions!

Dreamer · Answer

What history books are you reading?  AIDs entered the human population via contaminated primates.  To my knowledge the virus does not exist outside of humans and primates, so it'd be rather difficult for anyone to get it from a sheep.  It certainly does not exist in dogs.  There is nothing you can catch from getting the dog's blood on you.  Tetanus is transmitted through biting.  If the vet said to leave it alone, then I suggest you leave it alone.

Elaine M · Answer

You..........really need to pay attention in science class. Or google wikipedia on it.  Sheesh.  You're in COLLEGE????

You're confusing the sheep issue with AIDS, sheep don't give us that, they were the basis for a venerial disease. AIDS is an auto immune disease and came from primates and it's far more recent (the sheep thing was commonly found in Ancient Greecian times.).

I do find your lack of medical knowledge (as well as your grandma's) to be pretty scary.  Google has answers for all these, so does wikipedia. You haven't taken the time to check either one?

Nekkid Truth! · Answer

AIDS doesnt come from beastiality with sheep..

AIDS is only carried by humans and some primates.   Dogs cannot carry aids, nor can they transmit it.

cats have a feline aids, but it can only be transmitted to other cats.  Its not even closely related to the virus that causes aids in humans.

Justin Brown · Answer

Aids came from monkeys, but they share very close dna. You can't get it from other animals.

Anonymous · Answer

Urban myth. There is a simian HIV and scientists believe that the virus mutated and crossed the species barrier. (meaning it went primate to primate, like it or not) . The opportunity was humans eating simian meat. The point of contact? Slaughter and butchering of simian meat. Um, most normal people do not have intercourse with animals... but no, it would not cross the species barrier. But do not go there, ok? There is feline equiv. of HIV and it spreads in the same manner: (look up feline HIV) sex and bite wounds. You can look that up and see how fast it spreads.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes, that's how it started.

Allison Cherry · Answer

yes

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