Morel mushrooms linked to deadly outbreak in Montana: CDC

Morel mushrooms have been linked to a deadly outbreak in Montana last year, a study in the Center for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report said Thursday. According to the study, between March and April of last year, 51 people reported “mild to severe gastrointestinal illness” in the wake of eating at a restaurant in Bozeman, Mont. Three people were hospitalized and two people died. Following an inspection and the temporary closure of the restaurant, the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services and Montana’s Gallatin City-County Health...