How did THE LAST OF US disease start? Is Cordyceps real?
February 5, 2023
The Last of Us
In HBO’s The Last of Us, which is based on the 2013 video game of the same name, a deadly fungal infection called cordyceps nearly wipes out the human race. In the course of one day, September 26, 2003, modern life completely ceased and the population collapsed.
The disease spreads by humans biting each other, but who bit the first person? How did the fungus make the leap from only infecting insects to turning humans into mind-controlled zombies?