Jeremy Webb died of a meat allergy triggered by a tick bite. How do you avoid ticks and safely remove them?

The Guardian

After a coroner concluded 16-year-old died of a bite-induced meat allergy, we look at how to spot symptoms and preventative measures

Myfanwy Webb remembers her son Jeremy was “always getting ticks” because he spent a lot of time in the bush, camping and mountain bike riding, around the property where he grew up on the Central Coast of New South Wales.

When Jeremy began to get really bad reactions to eating meat, or even when the scent wafted through the house if she was cooking a pork roast, Webb remembered reading an article about an immunologist who identified the connection between tick bites and developing mammalian meat allergy.

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