People urged not to eat wild mushrooms

December 01, 2011

The Centre for Health Protection urges people not to collect and eat wild mushrooms from parks or the countryside.
 
The call came after a case of suspected food poisoning involving a 43-year-old woman who had eaten wild mushrooms picked from a podium garden on the fourth floor of Mei Lam Shopping Centre in Sha Tin.
 
She developed abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, dizziness and weakness about three hours after eating the wild mushrooms at home on November 30.
 
She was admitted to the Prince of Wales Hospital and is stable.