Death cap mushrooms (Amanita phalloides) are among the world’s most poisonous fungi, responsible for the majority of fatal ...

San Diego County public health officials Thursday urged residents to avoid foraging for, and eating, wild mushrooms due to ...

California health officials warned people to stop foraging after 24 people were sickened. Two needed liver transplants and ...

Have you ever looked out into your garden and wondered if the little mushrooms that can be seen popping up everywhere are edible? The many magical and captivating types of fungi are certainly ...

Some deadly mushrooms are easy to mistake for their tasty counterparts, resulting in several serious illnesses and one death ...

As the hobby of mushroom hunting gains in popularity, there has also been a surge in calls to poison control centers. (Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press) MINNEAPOLIS — The warm, soggy summer across ...

Poisonous mushrooms are causing an outbreak of serious illness that's killed one adult and caused severe liver damage in 21 children and adults in the Bay Area and Monterey since mid-November, health ...

Salinas Valley Health warned the public on Friday about a threat of poisonous mushrooms in the area. Three individuals were hospitalized Tuesday after ingesting amanita phalloides – or death cap ...

LOOMIS, Calif. (AP) – A California woman who served poisonous mushrooms to residents of an elder-care home has been barred for life from working in such facilities after four people died, state ...

Several dogs in California’s Central Coast have recently died or been hospitalized after eating toxic mushrooms, the Santa ...

An internationally recognised mushroom expert told the court on Tuesday that he discovered the poisonous mushroom near the house where Erin Patterson lived during the triple murder trial that has ...