Death cap mushrooms (Amanita phalloides) are among the world’s most poisonous fungi, responsible for the majority of fatal ...

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 ...

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Death cap mushrooms are back in the news. Amanita phalloides has once again been linked to poisonings, this time lacing beef Wellingtons served at a family meal in Leongatha, Australia, which resulted ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...