Posted on 06/02/2017 11:32:07 AM PDT by simpson96
A bumper crop of deadly wild "death cap" mushrooms in northern California is likely to blame for the poisonings of 14 people in December, health officials say.
The culprit: Amanita phalloides, believed to be the world's most dangerous mushroom.
All 14 recovered, but three required liver transplants, and a toddler suffered permanent brain damage, the researchers reported.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that anyone picking wild mushrooms have them evaluated by a specialist before eating them.(snip)
The 14 people described in the report had eaten wild mushrooms they picked themselves or received from others.(snip)
After eating just one that he picked in Santa Rosa, a 37-year-old was hospitalized for six days, according to the report.
An 18-month-old became critically ill after nibbling one-half of a mushroom cap given to her mother by a stranger who had picked mushrooms in the mountains that morning.
The child's mother, father, and two adults who had joined them for dinner also became ill.
The child developed irreversible liver failure that affected her brain. She required a liver transplant and suffered "permanent neurologic impairment," the report said. Another adult who attended that dinner also needed a liver transplant.
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Darwin's a cruel bastard, eh? What a stupid woman. d:^)
Mushroom picking is not for idiots. There are many books available with plenty of photos and descriptions.
Someone once said,
“There are brave mushroom eaters and there are old mushroom eaters, but there are not old, brave mushroom eaters.”
Certainly Amanita and most other forms of toxic mushrooms turn a very characteristic blue upon a fresh break of the top-cap flesh. Absolutely preventable. But a poor little girl had her life destroyed.
****A bumper crop of deadly wild “death cap” mushrooms..***
NOT A CROP!!
Wild mushrooms should never be harvested. I learned that as a child and passed it to my kids. One of their teachers and I took a class to a local park and picked dozens of species. We displayed them and taught the children NOT to ever eat them. A writer/photographer from the local paper printed an article, describing the dangers.
Where has our common knowledge and common sense gone?
What kind of idiot hippie would give an 18 month old a wild mushroom.
Good God!
Morels absolutely should be harvested. You’re a fool to pass those up. Plus there isn’t anything that resembles them, not even the red morel, so they are quite safe.
> What kind of idiot hippie would give an 18 month old a wild mushroom.
The same ones who eat daffodil bulbs thinking they are just like some sweet onion bulb. They then wind up in the hospital having overdosed on atropine (atropine is the counter agent for most nerve gases).
I think a lot of these incidents are immigrants thinking that a North American mushroom is the same species as the ones in Asia they grew up eating.
The article was carefully crafted so we couldn't tell the idiots are imported Democrats. Few people born in America would eat wild mushrooms without knowing exactly what they were doing.
They are almost always immigrants, probably uninsured, getting millions of dollars of medical care. That is a shame.
I remember Asian immigrants being poisoned in California forty years ago. Maybe the same type mushroom.
It also brings to mind an old, old Garry Moore Show comedy skit in which Carol Burnett poisons her whole family. It really was funny, hard to believe!
A California tree hugging democrat, that’s who!
“Oh look! A mushroom! I think I’ll eat it!”
...all but Uncle Dave, who got shot.
“Why?”
He wouldn’t eat the poison mushrooms.
(Or something like that)
I pick and eats morels. Incredibly delicious! There is another mushroom that looks like a morel, but it’s solid inside whereas morels are hollow.
My Army buddy in Germany (who was a Polish immigrant)knew how to pick them. We foraged once in Hohenfels to put some mushrooms in our Ramen Noodle Soup. Everyone I picked, he said was poison. He knew the good ones and our soup was delicious.
eat, not “eats!”
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