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Five people sit down for a family meal – a week later three are dead

Five people sit down for a family meal – a week later three are dead

A fourth guest is fighting for his life and needs a liver transplant Erin Patterson invited her former in-laws, and two others, to lunch two weekends ago. But within a week, three of the guests she hosted at her home in Leongatha, a small town in Victoria’s Gippsland region, were dead. The fourth remains in […]

2 years ago

Mushrooms can talk to each other, researcher suggests

Mushrooms can talk to each other, researcher suggests

They can allegedly recognise up to 50 words New research suggests that fungi can actually communicate with each other through a series of electrical impulses and can recognise up to 50 words. Professor Andrew Adamatzky from the University of the West of England looked at four mushroom species, enoki, split gill, ghost, and caterpillar fungi, […]

4 years ago

Guy injects magic mushrooms into his veins and they started growing in his blood

Guy injects magic mushrooms into his veins and they started growing in his blood

He brewed ‘mushroom tea’ before injecting it intravenously A man ended up in intensive care after injecting himself with magic mushrooms causing a life-threatening growth of fungi in his blood. A team of doctors and medical students at the Creighton University School of Medicine in Phoenix released a case report last week in which they […]

4 years ago

Afghan refugee dies in Poland after eating mushrooms

Afghan refugee dies in Poland after eating mushrooms

His six-year-old brother is critically ill after undergoing a liver transplant near Warsaw. A five-year-old Afghan refugee who was recently evacuated from the country has sadly died after consuming deadly mushrooms picked from near where they were staying. Doctors at Poland’s main children’s hospital have said the boy, recently evacuated from Kabul, passed away after […]

4 years ago

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