Tick-induced mammalian meat allergy has become an emergent allergy world-wide 
after van Nunen et al. first described the association between tick bites and 
the development of mammalian meat allergy in 2007. Cases of mammalian meat 
allergy have now been reported on all 6 continents where humans are bitten by 
ticks, in 17 countries - Australia, United States of America (USA), Europe 
(France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Italy, 
and Norway), Asia (Korea and Japan), Central America (Panama), South America 
(Brazil), and Africa (South Africa and Ivory Coast). To date, in each of these 
countries, bites from only a single tick species have been linked to the 
development of mammalian meat allergy: Ixodes holocyclus (Australia), Amblyomma 
americanum (USA), Ixodes ricinus (Europe), and Ixodes cajennense (Panama) are 
confirmed as culprits, and Ixodes nipponensis (Japan and Korea), Amblyomma 
sculptum (Brazil), Amblyomma variegatum (Ivory Coast), and Haemaphysalis 
longicornis (Japan) suspected of provoking mammalian meat allergy after tick 
bite. Other tick species remain to be formally identified (South Africa). 
Identification of tick species associated with development of mammalian meat 
allergy is crucial to the uptake of public health measures to prevent tick bites 
from culprit tick species, for both individuals living in these tick-endemic 
areas and those who choose to visit these regions. We report a tick associated 
with the enhancement of mammalian meat anaphylaxis after tick bite which is 
novel for both Australia and the world and establishes Ixodes (Endopalpiger) 
australiensis as a second tick species associated with mammalian meat allergy in 
Australia.