Picking wild mushrooms is super common in Scandinavia. I had some mushrooms my wife picked for dinner yesterday. You read about maybe 1-2 deaths or serious illn

Picking wild mushrooms is super common in Scandinavia. I had some mushrooms my wife picked for dinner yesterday. You read about maybe 1-2 deaths or serious illnesses a year in the newspaper, and it always makes national news. So yes it happens, but it's probably quite literally a 1-in-a-million event.