This rare double emergence is drawing attention to a mind-bending ... that only a small percentage are infected with the zombie fungus. Kasson said the rate of infection is between 2 and 5 percent ...

The hit TV series, ‘The Last of Us’, has captured the world’s imagination with its terrifying story of a zombie apocalypse caused by a mind-controlling fungus. In the show, a mutated fungus ...

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 ...

You can sleep easy knowing there won't be a fungus that turns you into a zombie in your cereal tomorrow morning. But COVID, researchers say, is proof we can't rest on our laurels when it comes to ...