California officials are warning Northern and Central Coast residents against foraging for mushrooms amid an outbreak of ...

Three people have died and another three people have needed liver transplants, state officials say.

No cooking, drying, freezing, or other preparation methods neutralize the toxin in death cap mushrooms.

Death cap mushrooms were in the headlines this week after an Australian woman received a life sentence for fatally poisoning some of her family members with the toxic fungus. But recent research has ...

California authorities are warning people not to eat foraged mushrooms for the time being after nearly two dozen people were sickened — including one fatally — by a highly poisonous mushroom known as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Death cap mushrooms, also called Amanita phalloides. (Anne Pringle) (Anne Pringle) A California man died last weekend after ...

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