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Picked mushrooms sicken three
    #5590067 - 05/04/06 01:20 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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Picked mushrooms sicken three
Two patients in intensive care after eating toxic fungus

BY SCOTT GUTIERRREZ

THE OLYMPIAN

LACEY — Three people were hospitalized Wednesday after eating poisonous mushrooms. Two were in intensive care, Thurston County’s Public Health Officer reported.

The patients became sick after cooking and eating the mushrooms, which they’d picked from around their apartment in the 5800 block of 13th Avenue, Public Health officer Diana Yu said.

Two of the patients live in an apartment behind the Chili Thai restaurant, where they work. A co-worker called 9-1-1 after they got sick during work hours, owner Tommy Meelap said.

They picked the mushrooms because they look similar to ones they could find in Thailand, he said. Doctors expect the three to recover, and one already was able to communicate, he said.

Yu said they were stable. Their names were not available.

Yu thinks the mushroom species is amanita pantherina, which is bowl-shaped when mature but resembles store-bought mushrooms when smaller. They’re toxic but not usually deadly and distinguishable by white bumps or warts on the surface.

Hard to tell

“You could pick up edible mushrooms and nonedible mushrooms and may not be able to tell them apart,” Yu said.

Initially, Yu suspected a case of botulism with three people sick at a restaurant, which would have raised a public health concern, she said.

“It had nothing to do with the restaurant other than they work there,” she said, adding that they picked the mushrooms entirely for personal consumption.

Medics were called about 3:45 p.m. The patients, two women and one man, were taken to Providence St. Peter Hospital, Lacey Fire District 3 Lt. Tim Hulse said.

They had eaten the mushrooms about 1 p.m., he said.

“I’ve worked here for 13 years, and this is my first accidental mushroom poisoning,” Hulse said. “I’ve been waiting for one. They happen everywhere else but not here.”

The three were on the ground vomiting and twitching, Yu said.
They’d saved some mushrooms for Meelap, but he turned them down because he’d already eaten, he said.

He went back and picked a bag for health officials to analyze, Yu said.
Mushrooms should only be eaten if they are purchased or provided by an approved source, such as a grocery store, she said.


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