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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

The article explains it as tagging your own cells in your body with a marker that makes the immune system ignore them. Doesn't seem like a foreign body encountered sporadically would work. Allergies and autoimmune (like CL IV celiac) are different classifications of hypersensitivity with different mediating mechanisms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersensitivity