Four people have died since mid-November, state health officials say.
The individual, who has not been identified, went foraging for wild mushrooms also known as "death cap mushrooms," were ...
An outbreak of toxic mushroom poisonings across California has killed a Contra Costa County man in the Bay Area, health ...
Death Cap mushrooms are still poisonous even after cooking, boiling, freezing or drying, officials said. Initial symptoms, ...
Mushrooms seem to be everywhere right now, pushing up from the earth through damp, disintegrating leaves and mud, growing on ...
The California Department of Public Health is urging people to avoid foraging for and eating wild mushrooms this season after 21 people have been hospitalized with severe liver damage from a toxic ...
Death cap mushrooms are back in the news. Amanita phalloides has once again been linked to poisonings, this time lacing beef Wellingtons served at a family meal in Leongatha, Australia, which resulted ...
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 ...
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has issued an update to its Dec. 5 health advisory regarding an outbreak of mushroom poisoning across California. Video above of past coverage of ...
The California Poison Control system has updated numbers for this season's wild mushroom poisoning and is now reporting three deaths, three people needing liver transplants and 35 total poisonings.
An exceptionally wet December has contributed to an abundance of death cap mushrooms, or Amanita phalloides, in Central and Northern California, causing what officials describe as an unprecedented ...