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 ...

The California Department of Public Health has warned people against foraging for mushrooms this year due to an “unprecedented outbreak of severe illness and deaths,” because people are unwittingly ...

The California Department of Public Health reported 39 related poisonings in the last three months, leading to the death of four people, at least three liver transplants, and many more people made ...

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 ...

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The death cap mushroom is one of the most poisonous mushrooms, leading to diarrhea, vomiting, liver damage and even death for those who eat it. (Agorastos Papatsanis) An exceptionally wet December ...

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.