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 ...

“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 ...

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Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann's HBO adaptation of The Last of Us has stuck pretty close to the Naughty Dog games, making changes where it makes sense for TV. However, one major element has been ...

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 Episode 2 gives viewers their first look at some of the terrifying types of zombies who are infected with the Cordyceps fungus. Over the next few weeks, fans of the HBO series will hear ...

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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 ...