An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps
www.theatlantic.com
In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why?

From the responses, the team learned that the ALS patients were not the only mushroom foragers in town, but they shared an affinity for a particular species that local interviewees without ALS said they never touched: the false morel.

  • enkers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    1 day ago

    There are plenty of forageable mushrooms with no look-alikes. If you’re cautious and thorough, it’s not particularly risky.

    And by thorough, I mean:

    • actually learning to properly identity mushrooms before you ever consider eating them
    • learning from someone else with experience
    • verifying that what you’re learning is correct in a book (for your specific region) and on the internet
    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      19·
      1 day ago

      And these days, that means making sure it’s a book written by someone who knows what they are doing, rather than AI auto-generated bullshit.