Mounting evidence that having animals early in life improves immune system

https://web.archive.org/web/20230824033633/https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/03/29/more-evidence-that-animals-reduce-childhood-allergies

Evidence suggests that exposure to certain animals early in life (even before birth) decreases allergies later in life. Other animals seem to make allergies worse.

Sorry, couldn't find a non-paywall link. Browse to the archive.org link, then stop loading once you can see the text and the pay wall should never come up.

I suspect this is the referenced study for evidence: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36989214/

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Nomad@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 253d

Tldr: dog and cat good, hamster bad.