Pick wild mushrooms at your peril, warns expert

Pick wild mushrooms at your peril, warns expert

The urgent warning was issued this morning by deputy medical officer of health Dr Duncan Nicholson.It follows the emergency evacuation of a woman in her late 40s who fell seriously ill after eating what is believed to have been a Death Cap mushroom.The woman, whose name has not been released, picked the mushroom in Queen’s Valley at the weekend.

She has now been airlifted to a specialist kidney unit at King’s College Hospital, in London where she was this morning off the critical list and in a stable condition.

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