Eleven members of an Amish household within the US, together with youngsters, have been taken to hospital after ingesting poisonous mushrooms, oficials say.
Delta-Cardiff Volunteer Hearth Firm described the poisoning as a “mass casualty incident” in Peach Backside Township in York County, Pennsylvania.
The hearth division instructed native information {that a} member of the household had instructed authorities they grew to become sick after consuming wild mushrooms that one in every of them “discovered within the woods and introduced dwelling for dinner”.
The member of the family who reported the diseases walked about half a mile (0.8km) to name for assist because the household doesn’t have a phone, a spokesman for the hearth division stated.
Six ambulances took the sufferers to hospital. The Pennsylvania State Police had been additionally referred to as to the scene.
The US Meals and Drug Administration recommends consulting with a knowledgable professional to correctly establish mushrooms which might be fit for human consumption, and says it’s a lot safer to get mushrooms from grocery shops or skilled mushroom farms.
There are about 250 kinds of toxic wild mushrooms discovered throughout North America, in accordance with the British Columbia Centre for Illness Management.
