THE EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT recently issued an advisory regarding poisonous wild mushrooms, urging park-goers to keep themselves safe by avoiding collecting and consuming the fungi as the state faces the largest “super bloom” in decades.
Cases of poisoning have been reported throughout the Bay Area, even causing one death in Sonoma County, according to the California Poison Control System (CPCS), a statewide poisoning monitoring and response service, which reported dozens of cases of severe mushroom poisonings in December.
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