A total of 277 people in Kermanshah, Sanandaj, western Azerbaijan, and Lorestan have been poisoned by the toxic mushrooms during the spring season. Three victims have required kidney transplants, and 15 others are awaiting new organs.
Poisonous mushrooms cause many casualties in Iran every spring. Amanita phalloides, also known as ‘deathcap’ mushrooms, are especially common in Iran and western Asia.
Mojtaba Khalidi, an emergency services spokesman, says officials have urged medical universities, particularly those in the west of the country, to raise awareness about the mushrooms.
Ibrahim Shakiba, who is head of a medical center in Kermanshah province, told ISNA News Agency that recent wet weather and a warm climate have produced a particularly large number of the deadly mushrooms.
He advised people not to pick them or buy them from vendors on the street.
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