In the animal kingdom, the deadliest food is probably fugu, a puffer-fish-based sushi consumed primarily in Japan, where ...

Three California residents suffered severe organ failure after consuming deadly 'death cap' mushrooms they claimed to have purchased from a produce van in Salinas on New Year's Day. The trio ...

The mushrooms reportedly look like white button mushrooms, which are edible, but are actually amanita phalloides, also known as death cap mushrooms for their level of poisonousness. Anyone who ...

In fact, they were death cap mushrooms, which look very similar to the regular mushroom variety, and can be lethal. The individuals, all relatively young and healthy, according to ER physician ...

Anyone who eats death cap mushrooms may fall ill, then appear to recover, but the poison can then cause liver failure or death, officials said. Photo by Michael G. Wood via British Columbia Centre ...