The Saint Paul Pioneer Press reports that a 10-year-old girl has died after eating poisonous mushrooms a relative picked at St. Paul’s Keller-Phalen Regional Park.
Salena Thao was among seven people from two Hmong families who were hospitalized after eating the mushrooms Sept. 9. The mushrooms looked similar to the edible ones that grow in
ABC27.com (Pennsylvania) reports that it may seem like common sense, but doctors say it is common for people to eat wild mushrooms, because they look like the kind you can buy in the store. This weekend four people learned that lesson the hard way. "One was a family of three. One was another individual."
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Per the CP News Wire in Moscow, Chief state epidemiologist Gennady Onishchenko was cited as telling a news conference Tuesday that at least 17 people have died in Russia from eating poisonous mushrooms so far this year, fewer than during similar periods over the previous four years, and that authorities have recorded 179 cases of
At least 12 people, including three children of a family fell ill after eating wild mushroom on Saturday night. Sources said Sabitri Das of Baghatola village under Rajnagar block cooked the wild mushroom, collected from her garden on the day.
Soon after eating it, all the family members started vomiting. They were rushed to a