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A parasitic fungus illness known as Cordyceps brain infection (abbreviated CBI) causes an epidemic that transforms human ...

Cordyceps are parasitic fungi that usually attack insects, arthropods, or other fungi. Essentially, the Cordyceps fungus doesn’t tend to bug us too much in real life. However, in The Last of Us ...

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As for cordyceps’ affect on humans, the fungus has been used in herbal medicine, and Four Sigmatic claims the mushroom coffee can have benefits for “energy, endurance, and stamina.” ...

His fears then came true in 2003 when a mutated form of (the very real) cordyceps fungus did exactly that. That’s what turns people in the fictional world into terrifying monsters. And now HBO ...

The outbreak that causes the entire world to collapse in The Last of Us comes from a mutated strain of the Cordyceps fungus, and our non-zombie zombies come from this fungus and the infection it ...