South Coast resident hospitalised after eating poisonous wild mushrooms

By Lisa Wachsmuth
Updated March 1 2015 - 4:26pm, first published February 27 2015 - 3:30pm
A spate of hospitalisations across NSW in February has caused NSW Health to issue a warning about the dangers of foraging for, and eating, mushrooms growing wild.
A spate of hospitalisations across NSW in February has caused NSW Health to issue a warning about the dangers of foraging for, and eating, mushrooms growing wild.

A South Coast resident was one of 10 people hospitalised throughout NSW this month after eating poisonous wild mushrooms.

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