00:02Matt Jacobs loves the peace and quiet of his rural property just outside of Brisbane, but come the warmer months,
00:08it's the perfect place for ticks.
00:09Matt says he was bitten by one last year while near this creek, causing him to develop a mammalian meat
00:15allergy, a potentially life-threatening reaction to red meats and products derived from them.
00:21Your medications, your soaps, your lotions, just everything, lollies, ice cream, you've got to change everything, basically.
00:29The 48-year-old now carries an EpiPen and antihistamines wherever he goes. Even so, dining out is a risk
00:36he's not willing to take.
00:38Really fatty food being cooked near you just can bring on real rashes in my face and nausea and brain
00:46fog, so I just, I wouldn't even bother.
00:49Modern science hasn't found a cure, so the country's chief research body says prevention is key.
00:54The mantra that we live by is freeze, don't squeeze. It's important to freeze and kill a tick in place
00:59before removing it.
01:00The CSIRO has detected a 22% jump in cases since 2020, likely due to more testing and more new
01:08cases.
01:09Southeast Queensland has emerged as a high burden area for mammalian meat allergy, as has northern New South Wales.
01:14Matt Jacobs hopes the recently confirmed death of New South Wales teenager Jeremy Webb from mammalian meat allergy will raise
01:21awareness among the public and health professionals.
01:25The four doctors that I've been to had never heard of it.
01:27We need to saturate the EDs with this information. We still tell people to slip, slap and slap, but everybody
01:33really knows that though, don't they?
01:35So we reach a point when it's saturated the general community as well with the tick information.
01:40Matt Jacobs only too happy to share his story to help achieve that.
01:44We've just been watching CNN wait and see everybody to find it.
01:45Okay, thanks so much for the time.
01:45Now once we get triggered by a union test of strap moving to get us all our free brokers.
01:49You
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