There’s been a spike in the number of people in Australia being poisoned by eating wild mushrooms, with authorities warning ingesting the wild fungi can be fatal.
Fourteen people in New South Wales (NSW) have presented at emergency departments suffering the symptoms of wild mushroom poisoning between April 29 and May 19, NSW Health said.
Nine of those cases occurred in just the past week, with three people having to be admitted to the hospital.
Between May 1 and May 18, the NSW Poisons Information Centre received 56 calls about mushroom exposure, with 37 cases related to foraging for mushrooms or mushrooms being ingested for recreational purposes….