SYDNEY — Jeremy Webb was a typical 16-year-old Australian boy who loved camping, bike riding and spending time outdoors with friends and family on the Central Coast of New South Wales. But a seemingly harmless campfire meal of beef sausages during a June 2022 camping trip at MacMasters Beach turned fatal when the teenager suffered a severe allergic reaction that triggered a deadly asthma attack. Four years later, a coroner's inquest has confirmed Jeremy became the first known Australian — and one of only two people worldwide — to die from mammalian meat allergy, a rare but increasingly recognized condition triggered by the bite of the paralysis tick.

On the night of June 11, 2022, Jeremy and his friends were enjoying a classic camping dinner of sausages and toasted marshmallows. Shortly after eating, he began feeling nauseous and breathless. He ran to a nearby camper van for help, collapsed, and friends performed CPR while waiting for paramedics. Jeremy was rushed to Gosford Hospital but was pronounced dead just over an hour later. Initially, his death was attributed to a severe asthma exacerbation, a condition he had managed for years.

It was only during a coronial inquest that the true cause emerged. In February 2026, NSW Deputy State Coroner Carmel Forbes ruled that Jeremy died from "anaphylaxis due to mammalian meat allergy after tick bite, causing an acute exacerbation of asthma, which progressed to status asthmaticus." The finding marked a landmark case in........

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