Across California, a serious warning is taking shape quietly but firmly. What many see as a natural and harmless food choice is now becoming a cause of illness and death. Another person has lost his ...

Three people have died in Australia and another person is sick after accidentally eating what appears to be death cap mushrooms at a family meal. The meal was prepared by Erin Patterson and served to ...

One of the world's most deadly mushrooms grows in the Sacramento area, where it can be accidentally eaten by a dog - or a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An outbreak of toxic mushroom poisonings across California has killed a Contra Costa County man in the Bay Area, health officials ...

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 ...

Deadly mushrooms remain in Shasta County. Experts share how to identify toxic fungi and forage safely this summer.

An exceptionally wet December has contributed to an abundance of death cap mushrooms, or Amanita phalloides, in Central and Northern California, causing what officials describe as an unprecedented ...

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 ...

Police say a Perth man allegedly mistook the mushrooms he illegally foraged for their psychedelic counterparts.