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

"This is probably the largest outbreak in California history," an official said.

Mushrooms exist in a breathtaking variety of shapes, colors and sizes. Especially in autumn, mushroom hunters go into the forests to find the tastiest of them, prepare them in multiple ways and eat ...

Before the experts were rushing to find treatments and testing for the coronavirus, some were busy trying to find ways to detect mushroom poison. Earlier this year, a team at the U.S. Department of ...

"Eating wild mushrooms gathered without expert identification can be unsafe," Stacey said. "Some harmful varieties closely resemble edible mushrooms, even to experienced foragers." The problem of ...

Sonoma County has issued an urgent health warning regarding wild mushrooms, which are sprouting up across the entire Bay Area, posing extreme danger to people of all ages and their pets.

Fungus Festival in Big Sur educates on dangers of wild mushrooms ...

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

A warm, wet summer weather means wild mushrooms are multiplying, and poison control calls are increasing. Most of those calls involve children under 5 picking or eating a mushroom that could be ...