In most ways, HBO's new series The Last of Us depicts a classic zombie apocalypse.
Unlike on TV, though, mind-altering fungus"doesn't jump into our body and affect a behavior that enables future transmission," Hughes said.A display of a fictional cordyceps-infected human body at the Los Angeles premiere of HBO'sCordyceps
could mutate enough to make the giant leap from insects to humans, and still keep its ability to effectively manipulate behavior, is far-fetched."But I will say that there's a lot, a lot of hurdles that need to be overcome," he continued."An ant and a human are dramatically different. We have immune systems, we live at different temperatures, you know, our body temperature is much higher.
"There is no medicine. There is no vaccine," she grimly informs a government official. She recommends that the government bomb the entire city to contain the fungus. In real life, it's true that there is no vaccine for deadly fungal infections . There are only a few classes of drugs to treat them, and they aren't always reliable cures.
In fact, because fungi are so similar to humans at the cellular level, many of the drugs that fight them are also toxic to human bodies.
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