"The Last of Us": Is there a real fungus that can take over the brain?
HBO's popular tv show "The Last of Us" is a post-apocalyptic drama about a fungus that turns humans into zombies. LSU Department of Biological Sciences and Director of the Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium, Laura Lagomarsino and LSU Museum of Natural Science PhD student Spenser Babb-Biernacki tell us about real life fungal parasites and what the show got right and what the show got wrong.
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