Chinese family of seven take ill after eating poisonous wild mushrooms at Mid-Autumn family dinner

Seven people from a family in eastern China were rushed to hospital on Thursday night after they ate poisonous mushrooms brought back from a holiday.

Li Dengzhong, one of the family members, said his sister had brought the mushrooms back to Ningbo, Zhejiang province, from her holiday in southwestern Yunnan province, local newspaper Xian Dai Jin Bao reported.

Li said they saved the mushrooms for a family dinner to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival and that neither he nor his sister thought of checking whether the items were safe for consumption.

But half an hour after the family ate a dish prepared using those mushrooms, “I was drooling and felt quite sick”, Li said.

“I almost collapsed after going to the toilet for too many times,” he added.