Can the cats contract HIV virus from humans?

I was thinking if a cat that bites a human being that is HIV positive, can the cat contract this virus from the blood, and can the cat spread the HIV then when biting another human?

No, the following is from San Francisco AIDS Foundation; web address below in source.

Humans are the only animals that can harbor HIV. People sometimes think they can get HIV from pets or other animals, because some animals carry viruses that produce similar immune deficiencies in their own species (e.g., FIV, feline immunodeficiency virus, in cats, and SIV, simian immunodeficiency virus, in some types of monkeys). However, FIV cannot be transmitted to people, nor can HIV be transmitted from humans to pets such as cats and dogs. (An exception is chimpanzees used in research that have been infected with HIV. Their blood poses a risk to researchers working with them). There have been two reported cases of transmission of SIV to researchers, but no one knows if the virus will cause disease in them.

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