Woman ill after eating wild mushrooms

October 02, 2013

The Centre for Health Protection today urged the public not to eat wild mushrooms from parks or the countryside after they receive a suspected imported food poisoning case involving a 40-year-old Mainland woman.
 
She fell ill after eating wild mushrooms picked from a mountain in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on September 29.
 
She came to Hong Kong on September 30, and attended Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s Accident & Emergency Department the next day. She then transferred to the intensive care unit, and is in stable condition.
 
The centre said people should not pick wild mushrooms to eat as it is difficult to distinguish edible mushroom species from inedible ones.