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#164 The Last of Us: the science of a fungal zombie apocalypse

The world, the universe and us

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Beth Anakli is a sub editor and TV columnist at New Scientist. She's been thinking about fungi recently because of the new show, The Lastibus. A parasitic fungus called cordiceps mutates into humans turning them into cannibals. Beth asks an expert how worried we should be about fungal threats today.

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