“Cordyceps cannot survive in a human,” Ratna says of the impossibility, plucking a squirming tendril from the worker’s mouth during an autopsy. Military officials explain the human-bitten worker ...

HBO's adaptation of the video game has introduced variations of infected humans. Insider broke down the evolution of the cordyceps infection in the game and show, from runners to bloaters. HBO's "The ...

Cordyceps are parasitic fungi that usually attack insects, arthropods, or other fungi. Essentially, the Cordyceps fungus doesn’t tend to bug us too much in real life. However, in The Last of Us, a ...

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The reason Ellie cut the infected and didn’t kill it immediately in HBO’s The Last of Us is simple, if a bit dark: she wanted to cut something living to see how it felt. This ties into the different ...

The Last of Us’ monsters are not your average zombies. Yes, they’re gross. Yes, they bite. But they’re not reanimated after dying. Instead, they’re living people who have been taken over by a fungus ...

Warning: There are spoilers ahead for "The Last of Us." HBO's adaptation of the video game has introduced variations of infected humans. Insider broke down the evolution of the cordyceps infection in ...