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Local health officials are warning not to eat foraged fungi after the death last weekend of a Sonoma County resident who had ingested wild mushrooms.
In recent months, California has seen its largest outbreak of mushroom poisonings in at least three decades. There have been 35 cases since November, causing at least three deaths and three liver transplants, according to Sonoma County officials.
They’re urging residents to avoid eating wild mushrooms altogether during what’s been deemed a “super bloom” of toxic death caps — an innocuous-looking varietal that’s often confused for safe-to-eat ones foraged throughout Northern California…