USA: 11 members of a family got poisoned by eating mushrooms, including a one-year-old child

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Eleven members of an Amish family - including a one-year-old child - were hospitalized over the weekend in the US state of Pennsylvania after eating wild, poisonous mushrooms, local officials said.

A family member in Peach Bottom Township in southeastern Pennsylvania told authorities they became ill after eating wild mushrooms that one of them "found in the woods ... and brought home for dinner," said Gregory Fantom, a spokesman for the local fire company.

The family member who reported the illnesses walked about a mile to a pay phone to call 911 because the Amish family does not have a phone, he said in statement for CNN.

The eleven are a man, a woman and nine of their children. The victims ranged in age from one to 39 years old, the fire department said.

"It was poisonous mushrooms, but the hospital has to confirm the species," said Southern York County Emergency Medical Services Chief Laura Taylor.

Fire and EMS units went to the family Friday night after being told the 11 had "consumed toxic mushrooms and were all in serious condition," the fire department said in a Facebook post.

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