Both human patients and animals, such as dogs, cats and horses, suffer from allergic diseases. Often people and their animals share the same environment, respond to the same allergens and have similar clinical symptoms. Therefore, both allerologists for human and veterinary patients could benefit from studying similarities and differences between allergies in different species. The Task Force (TF) started as “Allergens in veterinary medicine” in 2013. After a publication of a position paper on allergens in veterinary medicine in Allergy Journal, the TF decided to broaden its scope and
produce a series of review/position papers comparing allergic diseases in humans and animals, covering pathogenesis, allergens involved, clinical presentation, diagnostic tools and treatment as a reference for different allergologists. The TF was therefore re-named into “Comparative Allergology” in 2019. Delivered: Position Papers on Comparative aspects of allergens (2016), food hypersensitivity (2017), immunotherapy (2018), insect hypersensitivities (2019), COVID with a specific focus on transmission (2021); Reviews on  pollen allergies (2015, outside EAACI), formulations for allergen immunotherapy (2020).To add to this comparative aspect a more holistic view within One Health, we apply for a prolongation of the TF “Comparative Allergology” together with WG One Health as joint TF “Intersection of Comparative Allergology and One Health”. The joint-TF is planning to work on reviews/position papers comparing further aspects of allergology and immunology of pets and people, like the microbiome of skin and the microbiome of mucosal sites (oral, intestinal) together with influence factors on changes of microbiome including the environment, biodiversity, or greenness, and other aspects of One Health/Planetary Health) and the impact on the development of allergic diseases.

WG Comparative Veterinary Allergology (IG Allergy Diagnosis & Systems Medicine)

Chair: Isabella Pali-Schöll
Secretary: Douglas DeBoer