California health officials are urging people to “not eat wild mushrooms" ...

The California Department of Public Health is urging people to avoid mushroom foraging altogether this year because death cap ...

Death cap mushroom toxins damage the liver and kidneys, and nothing, including freezing or cooking, can deactivate them. They typically grow near oak, pine, and other hardwood trees, and usually in ...

The poisonous death cap mushroom gives the entire fungi kingdom a bad rap, and it turns out they're not only spreading across ...

Officials say this rainy season has created ideal conditions for the widespread growth of toxic death cap mushrooms across ...

Recent news of more than 30 cases of mushroom-related illness and death has prompted some Southern Californians to seek a ...

Thanks to an exceptionally wet December, death cap mushrooms — or Amanita phalloides — have proliferated along the Central Coast and in Northern California. As a result, there’s been a sudden uptick ...

More poisoning cases have struck across the Central Coast, with Monterey County and San Francisco Bay Area seeing the largest ...

(KRON) — At least 40 people statewide have been hospitalized and four people killed since November, all linked to the ...

Move over Hollywood — California’s latest horror hit isn’t on the screen, it’s sprouting from the forest floor. A freak weather-fueled super-bloom of Death Cap mushrooms — the world’s most infamous ...

The California Department of Public Health reported 39 related poisonings in the last three months, leading to the death of ...

Four people have died and three others have required liver transplants after eating the aptly named death cap mushroom that is proliferating in California following a rainy winter. The California ...