Claims
- 1. An oral vaccine, wherein said vaccine comprises a composition wherein said composition comprises a non-antibody fraction of milk and wherein said non-antibody fraction of milk ameliorates, in a subject with an allergy to an allergen, the symptoms of said allergy of said subject to said allergen when said fraction is ingested by said subject and wherein said fraction is produced by the process comprising:
- (a) administering said allergen to a milk-producing animal;
- (b) collecting the milk from said animal of part (a);
- (c) filtering the milk of part (b) through a filter which excludes molecules of greater than 100,000 daltons; and
- (d) collecting the effluent from the filtration of part (c) wherein said effluent contains said fraction.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a division of application Ser. No. 07/815,630, filed Dec. 30, 1991, (status: pending) which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/431,639, filed Nov. 6, 1989, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,130,128 and a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/177,223, filed Apr. 4, 1988 now U.S. Pat. No. 4,956,349; U.S. application Ser. No. 07/431,639 is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. application Ser. No. 07/161,039, filed Feb. 26, 1988, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,879,110; both U.S. application Ser. No. 07/161,039 and U.S. application Ser. No. 07/177,223 are continuation-in-part applications of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/001,848, filed Jan. 9, 1987, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,897,265, which is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 06/546,162, filed Oct. 27, 1983, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,636,384, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 06/384,625, filed Jun. 3, 1982, now abandoned.
The contents of all of the above applications are all fully incorporated herein by reference.
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