CDC MMWR mushroom-poisoning reports
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Authoritative, citable basis for the 'why to be conservative' chapter: cooking does not destroy amatoxins, lookalikes fool experienced foragers, ID apps are unreliable, death cap causes most fatal poisonings. Also https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010a1.htm for national statistics.
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Epidemiology reports, not consumer prose — needs rewriting into plain language (facts are public domain).
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