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Can you get HIV/AIDs from sheep's blood?
I was doing a bio lab today where we had to handle sheep's blood. My instructor, jokingly I assume, told us it was "HIV negative... hopefully."
That kind of freaked me out, especially since I have a bunch of cuts on my hands and I was handling the blood without gloves or anything. If the blood should happen to have been diseased, is there any way it could infect me? This is probably a stupid question but I'm kind of paranoid about this.
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- John TLv 54 years agoFavorite Answer
You won't be infected by HIV from a sheep dissection. HIV is not acquired from sheep. It is acquired from primates and humans.
- JazSincLv 74 years ago
Nope, you won't get HIV / AIDS from sheep.
You could get "scrapie," the sheep equivalent of mad cow disease.
You will also get downgraded for this lab if the instructor sees that you aren't wearing gloves or glasses. Your instructor might or might not downgrade you for not wearing a lab coat, not wearing a surgical mask, not wearing a hair covering. You're s'posed to be getting practice for what you would do in a real world lab.
