Caprine arthritis encephalitis virus Caprine arthritis encephalitis virus Caprine arthritis encephalitis virus (CAEV) is a retrovirus which infects goats and cross-reacts immunologically with HIV, due to being from the same family of viruses. CAEV cannot be transmitted to humans, including through the consumption of milk from an infected goat. There is no evidence that CAEV can cure HIV in humans. CAEV is commonly transferred within the goat species by ingestion of colostrum or milk from an infected goat, and to a less extent, cross species CAEV transfer by sheep is possible . CAEV adversely affects the immune system of its host, causing a disease
Adjective have special verbal forms called participles that can act as noun modifiers (alone or as the head of a phrase). Sometimes participles develop into pure adjectives. Examples of this in English include "relieved" (the past participle of the verb "relieve", used as an adjective in sentences such as "I am so relieved to see you"), "spoken" (as in "the spoken word"), and "going" (the present participle of the verb "go", used as an adjective in such phrases as "the going rate"). Other constructs that often modify nouns include prepositional phrases (as in "a rebel "without a cause""), relative clauses (as