The BC Centre for Disease Control (BC CDC) is warning the public not to eat an increasingly common — but potentially deadly — mushroom. The aptly-named “death cap” mushroom was responsible for 30 ...

When amateur mycologist Jason Gowen crouches down over a death cap mushroom, he doesn’t just see the grave risk, but also the beauty: the smoothness of its cap and the chemical lab within its fruiting ...

California authorities are warning people not to eat foraged mushrooms for the time being after nearly two dozen people were sickened — including one fatally — by a highly poisonous mushroom known as ...

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A three-year old boy from Victoria has died after eating a poisonous "death cap" mushroom picked in the city, a health official said Wednesday. The boy was foraging for wild mushrooms with his family ...