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High number of mushroom hunters poisoned
Posted: 05.24.2011 at 12:07 PM
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Hunters enjoy picking morel mushrooms (pictured) but beware of some that look similar
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The Michigan Poison Control Center (PCC) is reporting an unusually high number of patients with severe illness after eating false morels - mushrooms that look like the real thing.  These mushrooms contain the toxin gyromitrin, which is toxic to the liver.

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