While some mushrooms are completely harmless and, in fact, quite delicious to eat, others can cause severe or fatal health risks. The death cap mushroom, or Amanita phalloides, is aptly named due to ...

Have you ever looked out into your garden and wondered if the little mushrooms that can be seen popping up everywhere are edible? The many magical and captivating types of fungi are certainly ...

California health officials warned people to stop foraging after 24 people were sickened. Two needed liver transplants and ...

Poisonous mushrooms are causing an outbreak of serious illness that's killed one adult and caused severe liver damage in 21 children and adults in the Bay Area and Monterey since mid-November, health ...

California officials are warning foragers after an outbreak of poisoning linked to wild mushrooms that has killed one adult and caused severe liver damage in several patients, including children. The ...

San Diego County is warning against foraging wild mushrooms due to amatoxin poisoning risks, linked to a recent outbreak ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - As mushroom foraging becomes more popular across Virginia, naturalists and toxicologists say they are seeing a concerning rise in poisonings linked to look-alike species.

Monterey County officials are warning people about the risks of wild mushrooms, some of which are native to California for most of the year Some of the seven patients are still hospitalized as of Dec.

Erin Patterson was convicted of murdering three lunch guests with a meal containing death cap mushrooms. The 2023 lunch killed her in-laws and a family friend; a fourth guest survived. Patterson faces ...