Three people in California have died after consuming wild death cap mushrooms, a fatal fungus that can cause severe liver damage from amatoxin poisoning. Within two months, the toxic mushroom has sent ...

At least 35 people across California have been poisoned by death cap mushrooms, including a toddler — and three adults have ...

Following heavy rains in California, highly toxic mushrooms have been spreading, causing of one of the most deadly mushroom ...

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

Traces of plant poison on ancient African arrowheads provide the oldest direct evidence of poisoned weapons. Scientists have ...

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

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

Officials in San Mateo County are the latest in the Bay Area to warn residents to not forage for wild mushrooms, amid a rise ...

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

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

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