It is actually administered to the cat, not the owner.
“The vaccine doesn’t try to desensitize the immune system of people allergic to cats, as other existing immunotherapies like allergy shots do. Rather, it attempts to train the immune system of cats to go after a specific protein, or allergen, that they naturally produce called Fel d 1.”
I hope this is effective, affordable and coming soon because I’m very allergic to cats but I love them so much. I’ve always thought that in order to have a cat I’ll have to get an expensive hypoallergenic breed, but if this works, I can adopt, which I’d very much prefer.
Humans pack bond so fiercely we have chosen, after failing to make small animals more amenable to our immune systems, to alter our immune systems in order to make them more amenable to small animals.
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