Re:I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006)
by catalogia on Thursday October 17, 2019 @10:48PM
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> "the 99.something% who survive"
For this mushroom, it's certainly worse than that. It seems likely to me somebody quoted him the "without medical attention" survival rate.
> "Mushroom poisoning is more common in Europe than in America.[71] Up to the mid-20th century, the mortality rate was around 60–70%, but this has been greatly reduced with advances in medical care. A review of death cap poisoning throughout Europe from 1971 to 1980 found the overall mortality rate to be 22.4% (51.3% in children under ten and 16.5% in those older than ten).[72] This has fallen further in more recent surveys to around 10–15%.[73]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_phalloides#Similarity_...
Re:I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006)
by tapland on Friday October 18, 2019 @02:36AM
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That doesn't change the point that he ended up in the same hospital that by chase had >2/3 of the total number of related deaths in the country.
The people dying was the outlier
The death rate for Mushroom Poisoning in the US was apparently something like 2.9 per year since year 2000.
He's really just discounting the 99.something% who survive for effect because two died in the hospital he was at. If that is even true.