Thai students poisoned after mushroom meal
Published: 17 Sep 10 08:57 CET | Print version
Updated: 17 Sep 10 19:44 CET
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Ten language students from Thailand have been admitted to Uppsala University Hospital with suspected mushroom poisoning after making a stew from the death cap mushroom.
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The Thai students headed out to the woods to do what many Swedes do at this time of the year, namely go mushroom picking. Aware that there are a myriad of more or less edible varieties to chose from, the group took a book detailing Sweden's mushrooms with them, but it seems they still made a near fatal mistake.
When the students came home they prepared a dish with what they thought were edible mushrooms but are likely to have been death cap mushrooms, and proceeded to eat their meal. Soon after the group began complaining of stomach cramps and diarrhea.
"As it could be a case of poisoning we have taken all ten in for care. Early intervention can be decisive to prevent fatalities if it concerns a death cap or fly agaric mushroom," said Säfwenberg.
The hospitalised students have confirmed that they suspect that they did in fact eat some of the deadly mushrooms.
2010 has proven a bumper year for mushrooms in the Swedish forests and the number of cases of mushroom poisoning has risen dramatically in comparison with last year. The cases almost always concern a death cap or fly agaric mushroom.
"Swedes do a bad job checking on these things," said mushroom expert Kill Persson.
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Eh???
Maybe they just google translate the sentence above :-D
I go out looking for mushrooms too, but you know what?
If I do not find the ones I know dead certain to be edible, I am not harvesting?
PERIOD!!!
I think you shouldn't be a human being for wishing bad things to happen to other people. It's pretty clear that you are sick and suffer from a mental disorder.
@Marko2010S That is just pure ignorance. Not everyone in Thailand is poor. In fact, many of the Thai students who travel and study abroad are from the upper-middle class of Thailand and can manage fine. I am sure they didn't pick the mushrooms because they were starving to death, but rather because they enjoy eating mushrooms and wanted to take part of that very Swedish tradition of picking them.
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/inga-spar-efter-svampgifter-1.1172445
P.S If you don't know what i is don't eat it. However you should learn what it is. Mushroom picking is one of Sweden's greatest pleasures.
There's no point of making a hasty decision about others' opinion.
My point was that Swedes show kindness, compassion and sympathy for other people (Specifically needy people such as: Students).
What is the point of arguing about worthless things such as taxpayers money. What if the taxpayer A-Person or B-Person died early, or desn't have kids.
Why do people care so much about the future which most likely they will not live in....? Why not to support others as much as we can?
On the other hand, I am not saying that we spend our money on students who fail in courses 20 times, nor spending money on others who arn't willing to integrate and develop the country.
That is as simple as that. Finding and picking safe mushrooms is a learned skill taught that has been taught by someone who knows what they are doing and is practiced wisely by those who are just learning. Simple common-sense.
Anyone who eats anything that they are not sure is one hundred percent safe to eat, has some vital ingredient missing in their brain.
How does one know if something is 100% safe though? Is there a special mushroom checking machine?
That "machine" is the still living person who has picked and eaten mushrooms for decades--and who can teach others how to identify edible mushrooms; and since I know people who have been picking and eating mushrooms for decades, one can safely assume that they know what they are doing.
Since I have picked and eaten mushrooms and I have never been sick, I can safely assume that having used great care in carefully selecting and identifing the mushrooms that I pick, that the mushrooms that I choose are safe to eat.
That procedure is exactly what everyone who picks mushrooms
should follow.
Simple common sense.
I've stopped Swedish friends in California form making potentially fatal errors of mistaken mushroom identity. The stakes are probably higher there because of the hight number of extremely toxic varieties.