Zombie deer disease, or chronic wasting disease, is a fatal condition that affects animals with hooves like deer and elk.

After posting his discovery online, Jenkins was told that the creatures were infected with a ‘zombie parasite’ – an ...

Four Sigmatic has been in the mushroom business for over a decade, predating the current craze, and their latest coffee with ...

HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us opened in an unlikely place. The series began in 1968 with an epidemiologist explaining ...

A parasitic fungus illness known as Cordyceps brain infection (abbreviated CBI) causes an epidemic that transforms human ...

and our non-zombie zombies come from this fungus and the infection it causes. Cordyceps are parasitic fungi that usually attack insects, arthropods, or other fungi. Essentially, the Cordyceps ...

A zombie comedy-drama that reunites two stars of Parasite is being unveiled at the market by South Korea’s Contents Panda. My Daughter Is A Zombie is based on a webtoon of the same name by Lee ...

Cordyceps parasitic fungus growing on an ant, also known as zombie-ant fungus ... One avenue of investigation is cordycepin, found in the insect-parasitizing fungus species Cordyceps militaris ...

Mouth larvae are parasites that hatch and live inside the ... can invade your gums and jaw. A larva is an insect that’s hatched from an egg but hasn’t developed wings yet.

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“Actually, we can hypothesize that they keep the forest in balance,” he added, pointing to the case of the zombie ant fungi. Scientists have documented the lethal parasite regulating the ...