The Last of Us’ horrifying zombie fungi is real – but humans have a worse threat Posted on January 30, 2023 By Charlielikes The Cordyceps brain infection, which turns humans into mushroom-headed zombies in HBO’s The Last of Us, is based on a real-life fungus that takes over its victims’ minds news Tags:‘zombie’, 'is, ‘a, ‘have, ‘last, ‘real, billy wilkins, but, fungi, horrifying, humans, news, of, the, threat, topnews, trending, us’:, worse’