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]"
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]"
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