If you're eating mushrooms handed to you by some Bay Area dirty hippie, Darwin will take it's course.
More likely it’s due to global warm...er, climate change.
It is not related to wet winter, it is related to idiots having no idea which mushrooms are safe to eat. How much you want to bet many of them are trying to get high?
Who knew rain forced idiots to pick and eat poisonous mushrooms. Ban rain!
“I just found this mushroom lying on the ground. I think I’ll eat it!”
“The youngest victim was just 18 months old.”
Watch your kids for goodness sake!!!
It is linked to stupid people who do not recognize the deaths cap
Solution:
Do not eat wild ‘shrooms.................
I bet most of these cases were people trying to be ‘orgaaaaanic’...............
Lotta mushroom pickers here in Florida. Their main problem is that the mushrooms grow out of “cow pies” (organic Frisbees) and the contributions of the bovine have a foul “bouquet” and one can only imagine the flavor.
If you're eating mushrooms handed to you by some Bay Area dirty hippie, Darwin will take it's course.
I occasionally go mushroom foraging, and have found some of the most delicious fungi. Morels, several agaricus varieties, shaggy parasols, shaggy manes, etc. I had a Prince Agaricus in my YARD a couple of years ago. It was fantastic!
When I am uncertain, I have a number of reference books to check. If still uncertain, there is a mycologist on duty at the local forestry office Monday-Friday 9-4.
There is no excuse: When in Doubt, DON’T is the phrase when it comes to wild fungi.
More likely it’s due to an article recently that implied mushrooms are the “safest” intoxicant available.
As soon as anyone publishes an article claiming something is “safe”, people take that as permission to be stupid with it.
Milk Thistle extract. The French have used it quite successfully. In spite of 0bamaCare I'm sure American doctors could administer it.
Mistakes happen.
In Switzerland every locale has an office you can take your mushrooms to for inspection. But every year some family gets ill or dies because they think they know everything and don’t get them checked.
A rise in the number of wild mushroom poisonings in the Bay Area may be linked to our wet winter....
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And stupid humans.
It’s called picking the wrong Mushrooms and eating them..
Dr Burt Berkson, MD reversed and regenerated livers damaged with poison mushrooms using IV alpha lipoic acid. He regenerated livers numerous times with this procedure.
The first time he did it at a Cleveland, OH hospital where he was a resident. The man he was assigned to watch die lived and did not require a liver transplant after the alpha lipoic acid treatment. The hospital told him that if he ever did an unauthorized treatment again, he would be fired.
A short time later a family was admitted to the hospital after eating poison mushrooms. Two were worse off that the guy earlier. Dr Berkson treated them all with alpha lipoic acid. They all recovered and the hospital said, you are fired.
His friend at NIV who had been supplying him the alpha lipoic acid called the hospital and told them they couldn't fire him...we are going to fund a study using alpha lipoic acid to treat diseased livers in your hospital and Dr Berkson will head the study.
http://drberkson.com/
Used to go out mushroom hunting in the fall when I was growing up, but my dad knew which ones to pick. You only eat the ones you know are safe. Stupid to do otherwise.