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Amish family of 11, including baby, sickened by toxic mushrooms — but have no phone to call 911
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Amish family of 11, including baby, sickened by toxic mushrooms — but have no phone to call 911

Carla Sinclair
Oct 14, 2024
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Image: Death cap mushrooms; Jolanda Aalbers / shutterstock.com
Image: Death cap mushrooms; Jolanda Aalbers / shutterstock.com

An Amish family in Pennsylvania — including a 1-year-old child — ended up in a hospital after eating freshly picked toxic mushrooms. But getting to the hospital wasn't easy, as the man, woman, and their nine children did not have a telephone to call 911.

Instead, one of the family members had …

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