Health officials in Sonoma County are urging the community to not eat and forage for wild mushrooms, following the poisoning death of a county resident.
The county’s Department of Health Services said Thursday that the resident died over the past weekend. Officials did not release the person’s name, age or where in the county they lived.
“Early rains and a mild fall have led to profusion of the toxic death cap mushrooms in Northern California,” said interim health officer Dr. Michael Stacey. “Eating wild mushrooms gathered without expert identification can be unsafe. Some harmful varieties closely resemble edible mushrooms, even to experienced foragers…