Mishaps are reportedly to blame for most of the deaths, but Italy is having an unusually large number of deaths among mushroom pickers tempted into forests and wooded mountain slopes by earlier than usual autumn weather, reports Milan newspaper Corriere della Sera.
Eighteen people have died in a week, virtually all from accidents rather than from eating poisonous mushrooms.
One of them was a 65-year-old woman near Sondrio, south of St Moritz, not far from the Swiss border.
Posted by Ellen Wallace on 30 August 2010 at 20:51, last updated on 3 September 2010 at 15:39 | permalink
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News story, GenevaLunch, 30 August 2010.
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