Inita Dāniele, a mycologist at the Latvian National Museum of Nature, and Renāte Teterovska, a lecturer at Riga Stradiņš University and a doctor of pharmacy, strongly advised against eating potentially deadly mushrooms on the Latvian Radio programme "Zināmais nezināmajā" (The Known Within the Unknown).
This year, the hospital has already admitted its first patient with poisoning from wild mushrooms. In this case, the cause was improper preparation of false morels, which is a relati...