Here’s a new detail of how a real-life Cordyceps fungus zombifies still-living animals: Crashing their “blood sugar.”
That’s a recently discovered bit of science related to the zombie-apocalypse video game and TV series “The Last of Us.” The fiction chronicles an imaginary version of Cordyceps that has jumped from insects to humankind. The menace spreads via bites from crazed, ravenous bands of the infected stragglers of our species. Their voracious appetites turn out to be rooted — at least somewhat — in science.
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