An exceptionally wet December has contributed to an abundance of death cap mushrooms, or Amanita phalloides, on the Central ...

County health officials are asking residents to not eat wild mushrooms following dozens of hospitalizations reported throughout the state. San Joaquin Public Health Services posted a public service ...

Mushrooms that appear identical turn out to be different species, correcting decades of errors in biodiversity records.

The ongoing outbreak has led California to issue repeated warnings against the foraging and consumption of wild mushrooms. It ...

Here & Now ’s Peter O’Dowd speaks with interim health officer for Sonoma County, Dr. Michael Stacey, about death cap mushrooms. In California, three people have died, and dozens more are sick after ...

Health officials in California have issued a warning: not to forage for and eat death cap mushrooms after three people have ...

Foragers are being warned of what could be the largest toxic mushroom outbreak in California history, which state health ...

Three people have died and dozens of others have become ill due to a toxic mushroom outbreak in California. California ...

Where do you get your fruit and vegetables – a supermarket, a greengrocer... or the wild? For our distant ancestors, foraging for wild food was vital for survival, while these days we tend to rely on ...

State health officials again warned against foraging as illness and deaths from eating the wild mushrooms known as death caps ...

California is witnessing an unprecedented outbreak of illnesses linked with the accidental consumption of Death Cap mushrooms ...