"Toxic mushrooms can be difficult to distinguish from edible varieties and can cause severe illness or death," one Sacramento ...

California’s spate of mushroom poisonings, which has killed four people and hospitalized 43 others, is the largest known ...

Mushroom poisonings in California have killed four and sickened dozens more in the largest known U.S. outbreak of its kind.

After a string of poisonings from “death cap” mushrooms — one of them fatal — California health officials are urging residents not to eat any foraged mushrooms unless they are trained experts. Doctors ...

Death cap mushrooms in California have killed three people, and left more than two dozen poisoned, as officials continue to issue warnings to foragers in the state. Sonoma County health officials ...

So far this year, at least 23 people have been sickened by eating death cap mushrooms in California and one person has died. (Sean Gallup / Getty Images) The winter season has brought cold and wet ...

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On a walk through Bannister Park in Fair Oaks, Jim Adams says it’s easy to find all kinds of mushrooms. Rainfall early in the fall created perfect damp and cold conditions for them to grow. As the ...

An exceptionally wet December has contributed to an abundance of death cap mushrooms, or Amanita phalloides, on the Central Coast and Northern California, causing what officials describe as an ...

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 ...