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Will a Fungal Pandemic Be ‘The Last of Us’?

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Hi it’s Ashleigh in London, where I have finally started watching the second season of The Last of Us. It couldn’t be better timing but more on that in just a bit...

In the hit HBO series The Last of Us, a fungal pandemic devastates the world. A type of Cordyceps mushroom mutates to infect humans, turning them into zombie-like creatures.