【轻松英文阅读】狗狗也会对人过敏

 Certainly you’ve heard about people with allergies¹ to dogs or cats. But did you know it can go the other way? There is a dog in Illinois in America that is allergic² to humans.

 

One day at the beginning of summer, a black lab named Adam was brought into a rescue shelter. When he showed up the poor dog had big bald patches and sores all over his body. Over the next few weeks the caregivers at the facility gave him a healthy diet, baths, and plenty of love and affection, but his condition just didn’t improve.

 

After showing no improvement they took Adam to a vet³. Well, it turns out that the love and affection he was getting from his human caretakers was the problem. A blood test uncovered that the poor pooch was allergic to humans— more specifically human dander.

 

But it is not all bad news for Adam. The vet has started giving him medicine that will help him not react to humans and with time he should be able to interact normally with people.

1 allergies   

n.[医]过敏症；[口]厌恶，反感；（对食物、花粉、虫咬等的）过敏症( allergy的名词复数 )；变态反应，变应性

参考例句：

• Food allergies can result in an enormous variety of different symptoms. 食物过敏会引发很多不同的症状。 来自辞典例句
• Let us, however, examine one of the most common allergies; hayfever. 现在让我们来看看最常见的变态反应的一种--枯草热。 来自辞典例句

2 allergic   

adj.过敏的，变态的

参考例句：

• Alice is allergic to the fur of cats.艾丽斯对猫的皮毛过敏。
• Many people are allergic to airborne pollutants such as pollen.许多人对空气传播的污染物过敏，比如花粉。

3 vet   

n.兽医，退役军人；vt.检查

参考例句：

• I took my dog to the vet.我把狗带到兽医诊所看病。
• Someone should vet this report before it goes out.这篇报道发表之前应该有人对它进行详查。