If an animal has AIDS and we eat their meat can we contract the HIV virus or is it killed during cooking? If so then the people who eat pink bloody steak are at more risk than the rest?



What disease/virus still remain in animal meat after its cooked?

There are a lot of diseases we can get from eating contaminated meat. Any disease a human can get from an animal is called a zoonotic infection.



HIV is exclusively human because it already made a species jump, so what your'e asking about AIDS and steaks is not gonna happen.



But a better example would be brucellosis from unpasteurized milk and cheese. If a cow is sick with Brucella, that bacteria can get into its milk. The milk we buy in stores is usually pasteurized, meaning it is gently cooked to kill off any germs that might be in it. If you drink unpasteurized milk from a sick cow, you can easily get brucellosis, a serious disease that causes high fevers, joint inflammation, heart inflammation (which can kill you) as well as flu-like symptoms.



There are some "health nuts" who want to make it easier to sell unpasteurized cheese in stores by repealing laws that require pasteurization for sales. If they get their way, that could make a lot of people sick!



As for eating meat, one of the best examples I can think of are parasites that cause cysticercosis. Pigs can get infected with a tapeworm called Taenia solium. If you eat rare pork, you coule ingest the eggs and cysts from this worm, and get infected with T. solium. This tapeworm can get into your brain and kill you. The infection lies dormant till gradually you start having headaches, seizures, go blind or deaf, then you die.



The American pork supply is generally safe, but cysticercosis is an important reason why we usually cook pork till it's really done, unlike beef which is often served rare. Thorough cooking can kill the tapeworm and its eggs and cysts.



Another important zoontic disease is mad cow. If a cow has mad cow disease and you eat its meat, you can die of a similar disease called Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease. The disease is caused by a protein that wrecks the brain. The protein is called a prion. Meat that is contaminated with infected nerve tissue can result in sickness after ingestion. The scary thing is you can't cook out a prion. We rely on health inspectors to make sure that the cattle that are slaughtered for beef are healthy.



So anyway, the lesson here is that food safety is extremely important and that people need to be mindful of where their food comes from and how to prepare it safely.



Check out
http://www.foodsafety.gov
for more info.

Broadly speaking no, HIV infection does not get transmitted via food (although as mentioned, one theory about how HIV originated covers African tribes that would eat gorilla and other monkeys as part of their diet, and HIV made the ‘species jump’ in this fashion).



However, there is little or no evidence to suggest that HIV can be transmitted via certainly cooked foods, and probably raw foods as well.

(If posters are going to suggest otherwise, can they link to their sources, as I would be interested to see these)



Interestingly, there is some evidence to suggest that HIV can be transmitted by pre-chewed food. In some countries, to soften foods before giving them to an infant, mothers will ‘pre-chew’ the meal. There is some evidence to suggest that HIV can be transmitted in this manner. And it is well established that HIV can be transmitted via breast-milk.

I think it's quite possible.  Heck, people are always getting Salmonella from chicken, and one theory of how HIV/AIDS spread is that some human(s) got it from non-human animals and then spread it to other humans.

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