Get a field guide.....I wouldn't eat. Identifying mushrooms is not easy and not something you want to just wing.
No joke.
5 dead in mushroom poisoning in southern Mexico
July 15, 2019
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in southern Mexico say five people have died and two more were sickened after gathering wild mushrooms and eating them.
The health department in southern Chiapas state said Monday the deaths occurred in two separate incidents.
The first case killed three members of a family in the town of Huixtan, near the colonial town of San Cristobal de las Casas, last week. Another relative survived and is being treated.
Two members of another family died in the same area Sunday, and one woman survived. Families in the heavily indigenous area have traditionally gathered wild mushrooms.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in southern Mexico say five people have died and two more were sickened after gathering wild mushrooms and eating them. The health department in southern...
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Death Toll at 10 in Mexico Mushroom Poisoning
TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico – A 7-year-old boy and his father died Friday, bringing to 10 the number of Indian family members killed after eating poisonous
mushrooms in Mexico's southernmost
Chiapas state.
All 10, from the community of
Tenejapa, had eaten a soup made with wild mushrooms gathered deep in the mountains of Chiapas. Eight other relatives died earlier in the week. The 11th member, a 69-year-old man, did not eat the soup, authorities said.
Two more people died on Friday, bringing the death toll from the accidental ingestion of a soup made from poisonous mushrooms in a southern Mexico village to 10, authorities said.
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