Do animals have/get STIs?
Animals cannot get the same stds that people get. Human STDs are specific to us – that includes crabs. Crabs evolved to hold onto human hair – not fur, which has a different structure. Things like human herpes, HPV, syphillis, etc. also have evolved to affect only human hosts. There are STDs that affect animals though. They cannot transmit them to us and we cannot transmit our to them. Even plants have diseases that are tranmitted through pollenation – which is one form of plant sexuality! Animals can transmit Hepatitis A, salmonella and other infectious diseases – but they are not considered stds. Animals cannot get HIV because that is HUMAN immunodeficiency virus. Some animals (like cats, monkeys, apes, and others) do have immunodeficency viruses, but they are not transmittable to us and we can’t get theirs. Although some animals share about 90-95% of the same genes as we do – that 10 to 5% is still a huge amount of genes that we don’t share.
