California health officials issue urgent warning after toxic death cap mushrooms cause fatal outbreak. These dangerous fungi ...

Health officials in the East Bay said a man has died from consuming toxic wild mushrooms, amid an ongoing spike in ...

An outbreak of toxic mushroom poisonings across California has killed a Contra Costa County man in the Bay Area, health ...

"There is no amount of Amanita phalloides that would be considered ‘safe.'" ...

Yet another person has died from eating a toxic variety of mushroom that has been blooming recently in California — bringing the state’s death toll to four, health officials said. The latest victim is ...

A total of 23 children and adults have fallen ill in California after being poisoned by foraged wild mushrooms, according to the California Poison Control Service. One person died from eating a deadly ...

Three people in California have died after consuming wild death cap mushrooms, a fatal fungus that can cause severe liver damage from amatoxin poisoning. Within two months, the toxic mushroom has sent ...

Just half of a "death cap" mushroom can be deadly, one expert said.

The California Department of Public Health said that as of Jan. 6, 35 hospitalizations, including the three deaths and three liver transplants, have been linked to the outbreak.

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 ...

A total of 35 children and adults have fallen ill in California in the largest outbreak of mushroom poisonings in years, according to the California Poison Control Service. The sickened Californians ...