Yet another person has died from eating a toxic variety of mushroom that has been blooming recently in California — bringing the state’s death toll to four, health officials said. The latest victim is ...

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State health officials again warned against foraging as illness and deaths from eating the wild mushrooms known as death caps rise to new highs.

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 ...