{"id":87239,"date":"2025-12-09T05:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/87239\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T05:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:29:13","slug":"fatal-liver-damage-linked-to-foraged-mushrooms-in-california-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/87239\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Liver Damage Linked to Foraged Mushrooms in California | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CALIFORNIA – The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is warning residents about a spike in amatoxin poisoning cases linked to foraged wild mushrooms.<\/p>\n

The recent incidents have led to severe liver damage and one confirmed death.<\/p>\n

According to CDPH, twenty-one cases of poisoning have been identified between mid-November and early December 2025, with clusters in the Monterey and San Francisco Bay Areas.<\/p>\n

The poisonings are associated with the consumption of death cap mushrooms, which are often mistaken for edible varieties.<\/p>\n

Health care providers are urged to be vigilant for symptoms that mimic viral gastroenteritis, as these can precede fatal liver toxicity.<\/p>\n

CDPH advises contacting the California Poison Control System for guidance on treating suspected cases.<\/p>\n

Californians are strongly discouraged from foraging wild mushrooms. Death cap mushrooms, containing amatoxins, cannot be differentiated by taste from safe varieties and remain toxic even after cooking or drying.<\/p>\n

Grace Ritz is a multimedia journalist at NewsWatch 12. You can reach Grace by emailing gritz@kdrv.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALIFORNIA – The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is warning residents about a spike in amatoxin poisoning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,1570,47612,48067],"class_list":["post-87239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-health","tag-liver-damage","tag-mushrooms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}