One of the biggest changes HBO’s The Last of Us made in season one was to forego the presence of spores. In the video games characters have to wear gas masks when they travel because cordyceps is ...

In addition to passing the Cordyceps infection through bits and saliva, the tendrils could also turn a healthy human into an infected one. Now, though, the game-accurate vision of the fungus’ spread ...

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“Part of the issue with the spores is that you run into them quite a bit in the game, although not as much as people think, and if there were that many spores and they were airborne, that infection’s ...

Airborne cordyceps spores could now pose an even greater threat in HBO's The Last of Us. Nora faces a horrifying fate after inhaling the spores, affecting her nervous system. Tati Gabrielle detailed ...

The zombie apocalypse depicted in the popular video game series and newly adapted HBO series “The Last of Us” derives from a mutation to a type of fungus called cordyceps. Surprise! Cordyceps is real.

The Last of Us is back on April 13 and this season is more realistic than ever. The trailer for the hit HBO series appears to show the “zombie fungus” cordyceps infecting humans by releasing air-borne ...

The parasitic fungus, Cordyceps, joins the league of Zombie fascination. The Cordyceps Brain Infection is the determining factor of wiping out human civilization in Naughty Dog's game The Last Of Us.

The Last of Us‘ video game fans were expecting to see the Cordyceps fungus spread through spores in the air when season on of the TV series hit our screens. After all, that’s how the virus ...