An Australian teenager who died after eating beef sausages on a camping trip has been confirmed as the nation's first death from a tick-induced meat allergy. New South Wales Deputy State Coroner Carmel Forbes Jeremy Webb died in 2022 from an anaphylactic reaction, which triggered an asthma attack. This makes the teenager only the second person in the world confirmed to have died from "mammalian meat allergy", after the 2024 fatal case of a man in the United States . Here's what you need to know