Posted on 04/19/2025 6:54:02 PM PDT by Red Badger
The inhabitants of Montchavin in the French Alps knew something was killing them. They just didn't know what.
Some wondered whether lead from a disused mine in the village had leaked into the water supply. Others thought mobile phone masts were to blame. One woman believed the area was cursed.
Between 1991 and 2019, 16 people – almost a tenth of the area's 200-strong population – were diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a fatal condition more commonly known as motor neurone disease (MND).
In other words, if you lived in Montchavin, you were 20 times more likely to contract MND than anywhere else in Europe.
This hideous disease causes the body's nervous system to shut down, slowly paralysing the patient until they are unable to breathe. Tragically, there is no cure or treatment.
As the cases piled up and the death toll rose, French scientists tried to track down what was causing this unprecedented cluster. Finally, in 2019, they stumbled across a shocking possible conclusion.
Could it be that a rare toxic mushroom – considered a delicacy in Montchavin – was to blame?
In the latest twist to this extraordinary story, the Mail can today reveal that the only known MND patient still alive from the Montchavin area is a British man named Steve Isaac.
In 2009, Steve was given two years to live. But, like the late scientist Stephen Hawking who lived with MND for 55 years, he has defied medical science despite being fully paralysed except for his eyes. But more on Steve later.
For now, this is the remarkable story of Montchavin: the cursed village over-run by a 'plague' for which there was seemingly no explanation.
Dr Valerie Foucault served as the only GP in her adopted hometown of Montchavin since the early 1990s.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Anyone who eats a mushroom should have their head examined.
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Well clearly you have to be eating the right ones but they are full of nutrients and have many many health benefits. https://www.webmd.com/diet/health-benefits-mushrooms
Here we go again:
The fungus among us.
I am curious about some medical details; I’ll have to delve into this a bit deeper.
Since I am not a fungus expert, I don’t eat wild fungi...................
Ping!................
Likewise. I do like mushrooms but stick to the common ones at the store.
I love mushrooms they are delectable. In my teens I would eat mushrooms my old South Louisiana neighbor would pick, Alcie Melanson. He was 60+ and had picked them for years, I trusted his judgement. He taught me much about the swamp, we both loved it, fishing, hunting and how not to let the swamp kill you, it can. It was a paradise for a kid lead by a swamp rat father figure. Sixty five years later I still miss it and the bond of friend ship.
You were blessed, as was I, to have such men in your life. My best memories include the Old Timers, guys who took me under their wing so to speak, and showed me how to do things. Old School guys. Horse-drawn men. WW I Vets. WWII Vets. Farmers. Even a few attorneys and politicians. I feel that my internal world is full color, but the outside world today is a dull grey. We were very, very lucky. Pass on what you can.
Read almost the entire article and lost patience
Never told us the name until I saw the image. Gyromitra esculenta, a false morel. Has to be cooked to be edible. Containes monomethyl hyrazine—rocket fuel.
“A lakeside village in New Hampshire recently reported cases up to 25 times higher than the US national average.”
the CDC should have done the job they were funded to do by devoting however many resources necessary to determine the cause of that cluster, instead of being focused on lying to the public about the toxic covid jab being “safe and effective” and “does not leave the site of the injection”, and then censoring all public discussion to the contrary when no one believed them ... basically, the CDC is a criminal organization that should be abolished and started over from scratch ...
NASA and many other FedOrgs who have lost the trust of the nation due to ideological politicization and/or bureaucratic ossification should undergo that exact same process: burned to the ground and a Phoenix-rise-from-the-ashes rebirth ...
Ah, yes. I remember. I had the lasagna.
Or Geraldo would open an empty vault
I am from S. La- what a great story! The old-timers from there are/were incredible people.
The morel of this story is that you can pick your mushrooms,but sometimes they can pick you.
I read recently, that False morels (and even true Morels, but tona much much lesser extent) contain or matabolize in the body into HYDRAZINE! Hydrazine is the highly toxic hypergolic rocket fuel we used to land on the moon!
Between 1991 and 2019, 16 people – almost a tenth of the area’s 200-strong population – were diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a fatal condition more commonly known as motor neurone disease (MND).
No one was born, No one moved in, No one left on their own accord.
No other people died of other causes.
Sixteen people over a 28 year period.
So many questions so few answers.
I was hoping it was the Brie
Yeah but the teens say it’s some good shit man just before it goes totally black.
Morels are poisonous raw. I’ve eaten very few, thoroughly cooked. Even then, toxic chemicals in mushrooms can build up in your system.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/morel-mushrooms-can-be-deadly-food-poisoning-cases-show/
The roll rim comes to mind. You can eat them until their poison builds up in your system enough to burst your blood cells.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxillus_involutus
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