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   From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Scott Lurndal  wrote:   
   >mimus99  writes:   
   >>On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 02:50:49 +0000 (UTC), Contrarian wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> In alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk mimus99  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Seems Northern California got a lot of warm rain in December, which gave   
   >>>> 'em a bumper-crop of _ Amanita phalloides _, which took fourteen people   
   out   
   >>>> (one died).   
   >>   
   >>Cali has about 50 cases per year on average, one death every other year,   
   >>liver-transplants frequently indicated.   
   >   
   >Where is Cali?   
      
   Well, I can think of two factors offhand:   
      
   (a) Where they grow wild nearby (kind of obviously), and   
      
   (b) where there are many immigrants who have been used to   
   gathering and eating wild mushrooms in their country of origin,   
   and don't realize that the mushrooms here are different, and they   
   don't know which of our local fungi are posonous.   
      
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