Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. So far this year, at least 23 people have been sickened by eating death cap mushrooms in California and one person has died. (Sean ...

Mushroom poisoning sickened 20 people and caused one death in early December. The California Public Health Department advises caution when foraging, especially for amateurs. Experts recommend you ...

After a recent fatal poisoning, health experts say one truth stands out: if you’re not absolutely sure about a wild mushroom, don’t eat it. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued an ...

An office of the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency. File photo San Diego County public health officials Thursday urged residents to avoid foraging for, and eating, wild mushrooms due ...

Instead, they rely on taste, outcome and experience. If a wild animal eats a mushroom that later makes it ill, it will avoid those mushrooms in the future, provided the animal survives. They’ll likely ...

The winter season has brought cold and wet conditions that are perfect for fungi like death cap mushrooms, or Amanita phalloides, to grow in California, experts say, but with that has come a rash of ...