Talk:Simiispumavirus pantrosch
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Fatality?
edit>There is nothing in here as to how serious an infection is to people.
It is not known to be fatal to any primate, including humans, to my knowledge Pagelm (talk) 18:11, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
SFV relation to HIV
editWithout any citations to back the article's statements up, it seems more likely to me that the author of the tie-in text is confused by 3 letter acronyms for viruses. SIV has been shown to be taxonomically related to HIV (such that there have been at LEAST 2 incidences of zoonotic transfer). I'm not aware of a link between SFV and HIV - certainly it has a very different mode of action. Pagelm (talk) 18:11, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
It reads:
About 70–90% of primates born in captivity have SFV. Animals with SFV do not display symptoms or become ill. However, recent research suggests some primates that contract SFV would become predisposed to other viruses. People who have had contact with nonhuman primates can become infected with SFV
If the aforesaid 70-90% is true it would be good if this article also mentioned the rates of SFV or the curious(?) lack SFV infections of humans by Chimpanzees and other primates within zoos, 'medical research' and 'pharma' pet-keeping, and circus industries? - loads of humans must be bitten, scratched and what not in the aforesaid fields each year unbeknownst and otherwise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.29.26.111 (talk) 17:38, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
Proposing merge from Human foamy virus to Simian foamy virus
edit- Merge - the species Human foamy virus (after being renamed in 1999) was merged in 2002 with the species Simian foamy virus. Two articles for the same species is confusing to readers.
awkwafaba (📥) 21:42, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- Oh and they're all called Simiispumavirus pantrosch now, so that's where the article should live. awkwafaba (📥) 21:52, 19 August 2024 (UTC)