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Mushroom poisoning is usually the result of ingestion of wild mushrooms after misidentification of a toxic mushroom as an edible species. The most common reason for this misidentification is a close resemblance in terms of color and general morphology of the toxic mushrooms species with edible species.
Maxim Gorky (d. 1936), Russian writer; NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda admitted at the Trial of the Twenty One that he ordered to poison Gorky and his son Robert Johnson (d. 1938), American musician Raoul Wallenberg (d. c. 1947), Swedish humanitarian who saved tens of thousands of Jews during World War II ; reportedly poisoned in Lubyanka prison by ...
It is noticed that after up to 24 hours have passed, the symptoms seem to disappear and the person might feel fine for up to 72 hours. Symptoms of liver and kidney damage start 3 to 6 days after the mushrooms were eaten, with the considerable increase of the transaminases. [87] Mushroom poisoning is more common in Europe than in North America. [88]
A. muscaria poisoning has occurred in young children and in people who ingested the mushrooms for a hallucinogenic experience, [21] [54] [55] or who confused it with an edible species. A. muscaria contains several biologically active agents, at least one of which, muscimol , is known to be psychoactive .
History of Soviet poisonings (Russian) Archived March 19, 2009, at the Wayback Machine by Boris Sokolov grani.ru Organic poison (Russian) by Vladimir Abarinov, grani.ru Boris Volodarsky, The KGB’s Poison Factory: From Lenin to Litvinenko (London: Frontline Books , 2009) ISBN 1-84832-542-8
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Amatoxin is the collective name of a subgroup of at least nine related cyclic peptide toxins found in three genera of deadly poisonous mushrooms (Amanita, Galerina and Lepiota) and one species of the genus Pholiotina. [1] Amatoxins are very potent, as little as half a mushroom cap can cause severe liver injury if swallowed.
Although many people have a fear of mushroom poisoning by "toadstools", only a small number of the many macroscopic fruiting bodies commonly known as mushrooms and toadstools have proven fatal to humans. This list is not exhaustive and does not contain many fungi that, although not deadly, are still harmful.