• Though touching a poisonous mushroom usually does not pose a risk, always wash your hands after you touch one. • To dispose of poisonous mushrooms: Put the poisonous mushroom into a sealed bag and ...

The County of Santa Barbara Health Department is issuing an updated warning regarding the dangers of consuming foraged wild ...

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 ...

California health officials issue urgent warning after toxic death cap mushrooms cause fatal outbreak. These dangerous fungi ...

Many foragers have learned the hard way that eating mushrooms in the wild can turn a fun hike into a medical emergency. That's because many wild mushrooms are actually not edible. Speaking about the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...