Eleven people were hospitalized after eating wild and apparently toxic mushrooms on Friday night, a fire agency that serves Pennsylvania Dutch Country said. The station reported that family members foraged wild mushrooms and ate them that night. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says eating mushrooms foraged outdoors should almost never be done except by trained experts known as mycologists. Most of the known mushroom poisonings and deaths in the United States involve foraging of amanita phalloides mushrooms, known as "death caps," in the wild, the CDC said in a report on the toxic fungi. Eating them can cause death as well as abdominal discomfort, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration and liver damage, the CDC said.

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Persons: WGAL Organizations: Pennsylvania Dutch, NBC, Country, Cardiff Volunteer Fire Company, U.S . Centers for Disease Control, CDC Locations: Peach Bottom, Lancaster , Pennsylvania, Dutch, Philadelphia, Maryland, Delta, United States