The national poison information hotline has received nearly 60 calls relating to suspected poisoning from toxic berries and ...

When white mushrooms emerge, it means a number of conditions favorable to fungi are all present. Learn how to prevent ...

The mushroom contains three primary types of mycotoxin – a toxic substance that cannot be destroyed by cooking, freezing or drying. In death caps, these are: amatoxins, phallotoxins, and virotoxins.

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 ...

Recent rains have mushrooms and other fungi of all types popping up on lawns throughout Central Texas. Some of those weird fungi could be toxic to dogs, and it's hard to know which ones are ...

MONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. (Gray News) – Health officials in California are warning a community about poisonous mushrooms used in some meals that may be mistaken for a commonly eaten variety.

Poisonous ‘death cap’ mushrooms sold from truck hospitalize 3, authorities say. Three people in California were hospitalized after officials said they ate poisonous mushrooms bought from a ...