Four people have died and three others have required liver transplants after eating the aptly named death cap mushroom that ...

Death cap mushroom poisonings in California have reached record levels. Many of those poisoned are immigrants.

The California Department of Public Health revealed death cap mushroom poisonings are up by 40 per cent in light of heavy ...

Move over Hollywood — California’s latest horror hit isn’t on the screen, it’s sprouting from the forest floor. A freak ...

A California man died last weekend after consuming “death cap” mushrooms — the third such death in the state since November. California has been contending with an unusual spate of poisonings from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. So far this year, at least 23 people have been sickened by eating death cap mushrooms in California and one person has died. (Sean ...

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 ...

Consumption of death cap mushrooms — often mistaken for safe, edible lookalikes — has been linked to a deadly outbreak in California. The mushrooms, officially called Amanita phalloides, contain ...

At least 35 people across California have been poisoned by death cap mushrooms, including a toddler — and three adults have died, health officials said. The three adult fatalities and three emergency ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The winter season has brought cold and wet conditions that are perfect for fungi like death cap mushrooms, or ...