The Nation - News from July 23, 1987
A newly discovered virus that causes AIDS in cats should reveal much about how AIDS-type viruses act to suppress immune systems, a veterinarian said. Working with cats, researchers can not only study naturally occurring AIDS but induce the disease and study it under controlled conditions, Gordon H. Theilen, head of veterinary cancer research at the University of California, Davis, said at the annual meeting of the American Veterinary Medical Assn. Theilen said the feline AIDS virus probably infects 1% of the nation’s domestic cats and that there is no indication it can be transmitted to humans.
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