More than 800 people in Iran are poisoned by mushrooms

At least 11 people have died of poisoning, hundreds have ended up in the hospital, and at least two people have been subjected to liver transplantation.

This type of poisoning has no effective drug, the Iranian news agency Tasnim reports.

Mushrooms that have been consumed are very similar to another type, food, and surely that is why it has come to confusion.

Authorities warn citizens to buy mushrooms only from witness producers, who are marked and regularly packed in the market.

As BBC reports, mushrooms are sometimes sold at very low prices on Iran's streets, and local residents' claims about what they are for food and which are not always reliable, writes Insader.

The poisonous mushrooms grow in the mountains of western Iran often after spring rains, and seven of the 11 dead are from the Kermanshah region.

The media report that heavy, unusual rains have caused great increase in mushrooms in recent months.