Vaccine reactions explained when we vaccinate against a disease we give a tiny amount of the disease to encourage the immune system to create antibodies to it but not enough to cause illness.
Cat allergy vaccine uk.
There s hope for people with cat allergies as scientists have come up with a vaccine credit.
These antibodies bind to fel d 1 and thus have the ability to lower or neutralize its.
The vaccine for felines that hypopet has been working on induces anti fel d 1 antibodies in the cat.
The hypocat vaccine described in the journal of allergy and clinical immunology is applied directly on cats instead of people to prevent allergic reactions.
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Alamy scientists say they developed a vaccine that could cure cat allergies and the injection is.
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A team of scientists from the swiss firm hypopet ag has developed a vaccine to combat the feline produced protein fel d 1 to which 10 of humans are allergic according to their press release.
It works by teaching the animals immune system to fight the protein called fel d 1.
It is this turbo charged response by the immune system rather than the protein itself that causes the distressing symptoms.