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    A Few Things to Consider Before Eating Wild Mushrooms

    After a spate of recent poisonings, how to keep your inner forager in check
    by Lindsay Abrams Nov 13, 2012 2 minutes
    Source: Pamela Hassell / AP

    Last Friday, two elderly nursing home residents in California died after eating soup made with wild mushrooms.

    Just a few weeks before that, an entire Connecticut family was almost knocked out by a dish of wild mushrooms, onions, garlic, and green chili peppers. They were saved only by the timely administration of charcoal and an experimental drug.

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