Santa Cruz and Monterey counties were included in a list of areas statewide where people have been severely sickened by ...

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 ...

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