Do your eyes water when you’re around adorable kitties? Does your throat swell shut when it’s in proximity to delicious, delicious bacon? You may have an increasingly common allergy/The Internet’s worst nightmare realized: pork-cat syndrome.
According to WebMD (the web’s #1 source for terrifying you into thinking you are having a brain hemorrhage and need to go to the emergency room at once), pork-cat syndrome— that is, a severe allergic reaction to both pork and cats— has been reported in Europe since the late 1990’s. It’s just finding its footing here, as the States’ first six cases of the syndrome have been reported in a recent paper presented at a medical conference.