This is one of the earliest medical reports on record about Pork-Cat Syndrome:
“The pork-cat syndrome: effect of sensitization to cats on sensitization to pork meat. Apropos of a case“, [article in French] M. Drouet, M.G. Lauret and A. Sabbah, Allergie et Immunologie, 1994 Oct;26(8):305-6. The authors, at Laboratoire d’Immuno-Allergologie, CHU, Angers, France, report:
“A patient who presented with exercise-induced anaphylaxis, linked with a food allergy to pork meat (VP), about three years ago became allergic to VP though effort was necessary to trigger the anaphylactic reactions. These disappeared after suppression of the VP allergy, but the IgE response to VP persisted until the cat was removed from the environment.”
Now comes a MSNBC news report about
“Jonathon Posthumus, MD [pictured here], a fellow in the division of asthma, allergy and immunology at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville… Posthumus and his colleagues recently described the first six documented cases of it in the U.S. He presented his preliminary findings at the annual meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.”
(Thanks to investigator Rose Fox for bringing this, especially the youthful Dr. Posthumus, to our attention.)