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News items on 'Mushroom And Toadstool Poisoning'
Mushroom hunt has cost pair kidneys
(The Scotsman 08/11/2009)
A YEAR after mistakenly eating highly toxic mushrooms, a Scottish aristocrat and a famous author are on the kidney transplant list and undergoing intensive medical care while they wait. The ill-fated mushroom gathering trip has blighted the lives of Sir Alistair Gordon-Cumming, chief of the Cumming clan, and his brother-in-law Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer. Now the pair are backing calls for more fungi specialists to be trained in Scotland.
Woman dies and another is seriously ill after eating wild mushrooms picked in botanical gardens on Isle of Wight
(Daily Mail 18/09/2008)
A woman in her 40s has died and a relative is seriously ill after eating poisonous toadstools. The younger woman picked handfuls of Death Cap toadstools, which contain 20 toxic chemicals, while visiting Ventnor Botanic Gardens in the Isle of Wight on Sunday. It is the most deadly species found in Britain and is responsible for 90 per cent of deaths from mushroom poisoning.
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