Australian teen first person in world known to have died of meat allergy triggered by tick bite

A coroner has found that 16-year-old Jeremy Webb died from a meat allergy caused by a tick bite Photograph: Supplied

On a June night in 2022, 16-year-old Jeremy Webb was camping with friends on the New South Wales Central Coast, north of Sydney, when he vomited after eating beef sausages.

Struggling to breathe, the teenager ran from the campground to knock on the window of a nearby camper van, and asked the occupants to call an ambulance. Then he collapsed.