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Lethal ingestion of stored Amanita phalloides mushrooms
A Himmelmann1, G Mang, S Schnorf-Huber
1Medical Clinic B, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland. andreas.himmelmann@dim.usz.ch
Swiss Medical Weekly
|February 1, 2002
Abstract:
We report the first case of a lethal Amanita phalloides intoxication from stored mushrooms. After picking the mushrooms were kept in a freezer for 7-8 months. This case is in accordance with the well-known stability of the amatoxins and demonstrates the possibility of A. phalloides poisoning at any time of year.