Three Children in Critical Condition After Consuming Toxic Mushrooms

The children, suffering from acute liver failure, urgently require liver transplants following the ingestion of deadly Green Death Cap mushrooms.

Three children and one adult are being treated at the University Hospital in Essen for acute liver failure caused by eating toxic mushrooms.
The children, aged between 5 and 15, are in critical condition and have been placed on the liver transplant list.
The incidents involve two separate cases; two of the affected children are related and were brought to Essen from Saarland.
The University Hospital Essen is one of the few liver transplant centers in Germany, emphasizing the severity of the situation.
Experts warn about the high risk of mistaking Green Death Cap mushrooms for edible varieties, which are responsible for the majority of fatal mushroom poisonings in Germany.