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The AP (11/27) reports that "a fourth person
has died from eating a soup made with poisonous mushrooms earlier this month at
senior care facility in Northern California, authorities said Tuesday."
Local police authorities have identified the latest victim as 92 year-old
Dorothy Mary Hart. The article points out that "three others at the six-bed
Gold Age Villa care facility in Loomis died from eating the mushrooms in what
sheriff's investigators characterize as an accident." According to the AP,
"all of the victims were sickened Nov. 8, including the caretaker who made
the soup after picking mushrooms in the backyard of the facility."
California's Department of Social Services is currently investigating the
incident.
In its "L.A. Now" blog, the Los Angeles Times (11/28, Pool, 692K) notes
that "wild mushrooms are in season now, including poisonous North American
amanitas that resemble edible mushrooms that are popular in Asia. White with a
sprinkling of brown over the cap and known as the 'death cap,' the mushrooms
sicken hundreds each year in California." According to the blog,
"health officials say toxins in the mushrooms cause liver damage and can
lead to comas and, occasionally, death, especially with older people."
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