This is the most deadly mushroom’ in the world, death only by touching

October 4, 2019October 4, 2019

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Canberra: Poison Fire Coral, one of the world’s most deadly fungus species, has been identified for the first time in the state of Queensland, Australia. Xinhua said that the fungus, which usually grows in the mountains of Japan and the Korean Peninsula, was detected by experts at Australia’s James Cook University early in the week. He warns the public not to eat this bright red mold and even to touch it.

Mycologist Matt Barrett at the Australian Tropical Herbarium (ATH) at James Cook University said, “This is one of the hundreds of poisonous mushrooms known to researchers that absorb the toxin through the skin.”

Poison fire coral is known as the second most poisonous fungus in the world. Due to this, there have been many deaths in Japan and Korea. It is sometimes mistakenly drunk in tea as a medicine.

Barrett said that just by touching the Poison Fire Coral, the skin immediately becomes inflamed.

He said, If eaten, it results in terrible results, which include initial abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and loss of body hearing.

Barrett went on to say that after hours and days of skin coming into contact with it, there is a tremor in the extremities, vertigo, difficulty walking and difficulty in speaking.

Experts think that the fungus may have grown naturally in Australia as there have been reports of its occurrence in Papua New Guinea and the nearby islands of Indonesia as well.