The ACT Chief Health Officer is reminding Canberrans not to eat wild mushrooms after several hospital presentations last week. You should not touch any wild mushrooms with bare hands and should keep children and animals away from them.

Inspections are being conducted across the ACT where death cap mushroom have previously been identified. If you think you have seen a death cap mushroom in a public area, you can report it to Access Canberra on 13 22 81. For more information about the death cap mushroom and poisoning symptoms, read Death Cap Mushrooms. Please share this advice with your school community.

Contact Health Protection Service on 02 5124 9700​​​​​​​.