Doctor, family, issue warning about potentially deadly mushrooms around Victoria
VICTORIA — A Victoria resident who ate a wild mushroom he picked in the city’s downtown has become seriously ill, prompting the Island Health authority to issue a warning for others to be extra cautious.
The authority’s chief medical health officer Dr. Richard Stanwick said Tuesday the person has been transferred from an intensive care unit in Victoria to a hospital in Alberta.
The male’s family has not released his name or age but wants others to know they too could be poisoned from eating the fungus called Amanita phalloides, also known as death cap mushrooms, he said.
“The family is saying, ‘Please get the message out, be very, very careful.’”