HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us opened in an unlikely place. The series began in 1968 with an epidemiologist explaining ...

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

Four Sigmatic has been in the mushroom business for over a decade, predating the current craze, and their latest coffee with ...

João Araújo, an assistant curator and researcher in mycology at the New York Botanical Garden, said it's "very unlikely" that the fungus would be able to infect humans. The Cordyceps are "not ...

Whereas the fictionalized version of the Cordyceps fungus transforms otherwise healthy humans into rabid, mindless zombies ...

On the hit zombie TV show "The Last of Us", cordyceps fungus mostly turns people into "superstrong killing machines", said Bloomberg. But in traditional medicine, the chilli-shaped fungi are ...

“If a jump from an ant species is hard, to jump to humans—that’s definitely ... extinction because of a mutated strain of the Cordyceps fungus. Ironically, cordiceps is a fairly common ...

Essentially, the Cordyceps fungus doesn’t tend to bug us too much in real life. However, in The Last of Us, a mutated version of the fungus enters human bodies via airborne spores and nestles ...

Starring Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal, the show primarily takes place 20 years after the cordyceps fungus evolves to infect humans, generating hordes of aggressive creatures. Joel (Pascal), a ...

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 ...