Death cap mushroom toll climbs as state officials plead for halt to foraging

All that rainy weather over the holiday season appears to have turbo-charged a deadly outbreak of mushroom poisonings across the California coast, state health officials warned Wednesday.

Three people died from mid-November through early January and another three people needed liver transplants after eating toxic mushrooms across the state, according to the California Department of Public Health.

It all comes amid a massive bloom of aptly named death cap mushrooms, which has been...