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Indian Woman to sue Australian supermarket

Ate mushroom laced with death caps
Melbourne: A 25-year-old Indian woman, who almost died after consuming mushrooms laced with death caps, is suing Australia’s largest supermarket chain Woolworths for selling the food item. Rajvir Kaur, a Newcastle resident, suffered severe food poisoning after she ate a curry cooked by her mother in April in 2014.
Kaur had bought button mushrooms which had become contaminated with a number of death cap mushrooms, a highly poisonous fungus that looks similar to a normal mushroom but releases deadly toxins into the body if consumed, Sydney’s Morning Herald said.
She barely survived after falling into a week-long coma following an emergency liver transplant, multiple organ failure, and follow up surgery on her bowel. “I’m lucky to be alive,” Kaur, who was in hospital for four months, said. “The doctors said my body is strong I survived a lot of hours without a liver.”
Her mother, who cooked the meal, and her housemate also fell ill after eating the mushroom and potato curry.
Doctors had to give Kaur a liver donated by a patient with a different blood type, meaning she must take 20 different medications every day to stop her body rejecting the organ.
Now, Kaur is suing Woolworths. Woolworths, however, is denying the claim, and cites an ACT Health and ACT Police investigation into the incident last year.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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