Three people have died in Australia and another person is sick after accidentally eating what appears to be death cap mushrooms at a family meal. The meal was prepared by Erin Patterson and served to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A few years ago a reader sent me an email about identifying a mushroom in his lawn. These mushrooms were popping up in the lawn in ...

It's the kind of story a mystery novelist might conjure. But for months, a real murder case has been playing out in a small Australian town where three people died after eating a family meal that was ...

Four people have died and three others have required liver transplants after eating the aptly named death cap mushroom that is proliferating in California following a rainy winter. The California ...

One of the world's most deadly mushrooms grows in the Sacramento area, where it can be accidentally eaten by a dog - or a toddler.

The death cap is the deadliest mushroom known to humans. Each year, it kills an estimated 100 people and sickens thousands more. Many of its victims are unsuspecting foragers who mistake it for the ...

Australians are being warned against taking part in the viral trend of “mushroom foraging” after a food safety body deemed it potentially life-threatening. The alert comes less than a year after three ...

The California Department of Public Health has warned people against foraging for mushrooms this year due to an “unprecedented outbreak of severe illness and deaths,” because people are unwittingly ...

A team of scientists may have just found an antidote to one of the most infamous natural poisons in the world: the death cap mushroom. In a new study, they detail experiments showing that a common ...

Police say a Perth man allegedly mistook the mushrooms he illegally foraged for their psychedelic counterparts.