The Last of Us - The Core Decepts Fungus

The game also applies to the TV show. In this case, it's not a virus. It's a fungus. This mutation of the core decepts fungus that has infected the entire population of earth. And due to this fungus, people turn into this like zombie-like creatures. They're called the infected that turn violent and start biting and attacking and killing other people so that everybody can get infected.