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Hotter Climate Could Fuel Spread of Dangerous Fungi, Scientists Warn


The setup for The Last of Us video game and TV series involves a fungus that evolves due to climate change to infect swathes of the human population, turning people into killer zombies – and at least part of that story is eerily plausible.

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