A family of three and two cats in Guangdong died of poisonous mushrooms Experts: Probably ate a highly toxic red mushroom with a fatality rate of 70%.

[Three families and two cats in Guangdong died of poisonous mushrooms Experts: May have eaten highly toxic red mushrooms with a fatality rate of 70%] Recently, a village in Pingyuan County, Meizhou, Guangdong Province, suffered from poisoning by eating and picking wild mushrooms. The family's grandmother, mother and 13-year-old child were sent to the hospital for rescue and died. The two cats in the family who ate the remaining mushroom soup were also poisoned. Experts said that from the symptoms of poisoning after a family of three, it is speculated that the poisoning of 3 people is likely to be one of the local abundant red mushrooms, a sub-rare fold red mushroom with a deadly toxin, according to records, the fatality rate of this highly toxic red mushroom has reached 70%. Some villagers said that on the day of the incident, they had seen the party Aunt Lin go up the mountain to collect mushrooms, and they also reminded Aunt Lin not to eat as much as possible, but they did not expect such a tragedy to occur. (Meizhou TV)

Source: Guangzhou Daily