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Sacramento County health officials are trying to positively determine whether mushroom poisoning was behind an illness that put five members of a Sacramento family in the hospital this week.

Investigators believe the family may have eaten Amanita mushrooms, better known as "death-cap" mushrooms, during a Sunday meal, Sacramento County Health Officer Dr. Glennah Trochet said.

Trochet said three members of the family, who do not speak English, remain hospitalized suffering the effects of liver failure at an undisclosed area hospital. Two other family members were treated and released.

Cases of mushroom poisoning occur most often among recent immigrants who can mistake toxic mushrooms for more harmless varieties found in their home countries. Symptoms after eating poisonous mushrooms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and severe cramps, usually within six to 12 hours after consumption.
ABC News

You might be saying, what a drag, or wondering what kind of life you're living if you're foraging for food for your family from the countryside

Well try thinking to the MAX! hippy.

Then you'd see that immigrants are supposed to get their food by foraging and rooting around the countryside. It's in the Bible, people. So we're good on that count. But poison mushrooms? That's a problem.

If these immigrants, we'll assume illegal, could read English or stayed in their own' country everything would've been fine. But as it is, they're...
a.) Eating OUR mushrooms. They're eating mushrooms that could've been eaten by Americans.

b.) Taking up space in our hospitals. How many Americans were turned away from the emergency room because these immigrants, we'll assume illegal, couldn't keep their livers working?

c.) Making life more difficult for the rest of us. Now I'm sure we'll have to name our mushrooms in English and Spanish, we'll assume they were illegal immigrants from a Spanish speaking country. If they could read or speak English they would've known WE call these "Death-Cap" mushrooms. Who eats "Death-Cap" mushrooms? ILLEGAL ALIENS, that's who.

And now we reward them with healthcare and a voyage home. We'll ship them home all fixed up and you and I pay for it.

These people were trespassing, stealing, not speaking English and what do we do? Reward them.

No one pays for my doctor visits. No one pays for me to go to Latin America. Where's my reward for NOT breaking the law. Our rewards for being good are going to people who are being bad. They're taking what should be mine and yours.

Taking our mushrooms indeed.

Ugh... I don't like thinking to the MAX! anymore. It makes me feel ugly inside.

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