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Spike in Amanita poisonings in Europe
    #22313023 - 09/30/15 08:58 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

BBC did a story this morning on a rash of amanita poisonings of Syrian refugees.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/29/germany-attributes-mushroom-poisonings-foraging-refugees
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Toxicologists blame 40 cases, with one fatality so far, on mainly Syrian arrivals mistaking poisonous fungi such as the death cap for food.

Most refugees have already defied the odds by the time they arrive in Europe, having typically undertaken perilous journeys across land and sea. But once they have reached Germany they are not out of danger, according to mushroom experts and doctors, who warn record numbers of people are becoming ill after eating poisonous mushrooms.

A leading German toxicologist has said poisonings are at an all-time high owing to the large number of newcomers foraging for mushrooms and mistaking those they find for varieties found in their homelands.

Prof Siegmar Berndt, thead toxicologist of the German Mycological Society, said he had never come across so many cases. “In my 70-year lifespan there have never been so many mushroom poisonings as there have been so far this year,” he told the Guardian.

“Most of the victims are refugees and asylum-seekers who have already arrived in Germany, mainly from Syria.”




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Re: Spike in Amanita poisonings in Europe [Re: koods]
    #22313247 - 09/30/15 10:10 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

yeah wow.  against the odds you make it out of your war ravaged homeland, across the many miles, to the relative safety and security of Germany and get severely poisoned by what is probably your first decent meal in a long time.


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