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

It started as a home-cooked meal, ended in multiple deaths and a court sentence for Erin Patterson. Here's how the death cap became the center of a chilling murder case. A jury in Australia has found ...

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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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They don’t look too dissimilar to the supermarket varieties we chop and throw into stir fries, but death cap mushrooms are one of the deadliest plants in the UK. Also known as 'Amanita Phalloides', ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Prof. Anne Pringle, a mycologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, about the latest research on death cap mushrooms, revealing new information about the enigmatic ...

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 ...

The California Department of Public Health reported 39 related poisonings in the last three months, leading to the death of four people, at least three liver transplants, and many more people made ...

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