Rabu, 30 April 2014

Eat wild mushrooms and risk death (AAP)

View Comments A fourth Canberra resident has been poisoned after eating a Death Cap mushroom.AAP A fourth Canberra resident has been poisoned after eating a Death Cap mushroom.

Don't pick and eat wild mushrooms in the ACT at this time of year or you risk death.

The ACT chief health officer's warning follows a fourth case of death cap mushroom poisoning this weekend, after three from a shared meal of mushrooms.

Paul Kelly said the latest patient was in Canberra Hospital after eating wild mushrooms.

The other three remain in hospital, two of whom are in Sydney.

Dr Kelly said these mushrooms were so toxic that just 5g - enough to fill a teaspoon - was sufficient to cause fatal liver damage.

At first, it was suggested mushrooms responsible for the first three cases came from Woolworths.

But Dr Kelly said it was conclusively proved they did not.

Death caps are native to Europe but have spread around the world, with populations found in Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide. In the ACT, death caps are found near oak trees.

In Canberra in 2012, a man and a woman died and two others were poisoned but recovered after a meal containing the mushrooms.

The ACT has recorded 16 poisonings and four deaths in the past 15 years.

Dr Kelly said the mature death cap was readily recognisable. But young death caps resemble edible varieties found in Asia.

"The reality is these mushrooms pop up like mushrooms. They are there. Every mushroom has millions of spores and every one of those spores can lead to a new mushroom," he said.


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