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Two Australians die after eating poisonous mushrooms
Jan 4, 2012, 2:59 GMT
Sydney - Canberra residents were warned against collecting wild mushrooms Wednesday after two people died from eating death cap mushrooms at a New Year's Eve party.
Canberra authorities said the latest deaths brought to five the number of people in the past 10 years who have died after eating an introduced fungus species that thrives in Australia's capital city.
Two people who also ate the white-gilled mushrooms, which are hard to distinguish from other mushrooms, are being treated in hospital.
New South Wales Poisons Information Centre spokesman Naren Gunja said the death cap, Amanita phalloides, was among the most poisonous fungus species with victims sometimes dying from liver failure after eating a single stalk.
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