The “death cap” mushroom is said to be delicious. For some days later, organ damage as the death caps’ potent toxins ravaged the liver. RelatedThree who ate the California death caps needed liver transplants, according to the report. The CDC doesn’t issue regular reports on death cap poisonings, an exact numbers for each year were not available. December’s rash of death cap poisonings reads much like another federal report from the 1990s, when a single week saw nine poisoning and two deaths.

Source: National Post June 03, 2017 18:11 UTC