Health authorities in New South Wales and South Australia are warning residents to avoid wild mushrooms due to a surge in ...

Prosecutors allege she intended to kill two elderly couples – including her children’s grandparents – and deliberately picked death cap mushrooms for murder.

Death Cap mushrooms are the number one fatal cause of mushroom poisoning in the world. They can be found across Europe, ...

Four family members met for lunch and were urgently rushed to emergency care on suspected cases of acute ‘death cap’ mushroom (Amanita phalloide) poisoning. Three of them - Gail Patterson ...

This isn’t the case with the death cap mushroom, which is as poisonous as it sounds. Although this mushroom is extremely dangerous, it can easily be confused with an edible mushroom ...

An Australian woman accused of murdering three of her estranged husband’s relatives with poisonous mushrooms has told a court ...

The invasive death cap mushroom is thriving in North America. While it can be difficult to distinguish from an edible one, make no mistake: It can do a number on you. The death cap is the world's ...

The alert comes less than a year after three people died after eating a beef Wellington – allegedly containing death cap mushrooms – at a family lunch in Leongatha, Victoria in July 2023.

They don't call it the "death cap" mushroom without good reason. It's one of the most poisonous mushrooms in the world. Eating only half a cap can shut down your liver – and if you don't get ...

Detective inspector Dean Thomas said it was not clear what type of mushrooms the guests had eaten on 29 July, but their symptoms were consistent with those from a death cap, a particularly deadly ...

Doctors said the symptoms matched death cap mushroom poisoning, which forensic tests later confirmed. The prosecution alleges that Ms Patterson, 50, deliberately poisoned the lunch guests after ...