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'The Last of Us': A woman found a real cordyceps mushroom, touched it and is called 'patient zero of the apocalypse'

2023-02-28T19:16:24.266Z


He found at the door of his house the fungus that unleashes a pandemic and that ends humanity in the HBO series


Gretchen Testa, a woman from the United States, was baptized as the "patient zero of the apocalypse" after the Cordyceps fungus knocked on the door of her house, which in the HBO series, The Last of Us, ends

humanity

.  


The series, based on the video game of the same name, presents a world devastated by the Cordyceps fungus that destroys the world and creates a swarm of zombies that seek to reproduce the contagion. 

Mushroom-obsessed Gretchen Testa posted a

TikTok

video of a Cordyceps-infected tree right next to her house.

The Cordyceps in a human according to "The Last of Us".

Cordyceps: the fungus that ends humanity 

Gretchen, known as the Mushroom Musketeer, left followers of the social network TiTok alarmed when she found a "zombie ant" that had been invaded by the fungus.

Additionally, Gretchen gave TikTokers more cause for concern when she said, "

There are thousands of zombie ants in every tree on the beach, thousands

."

Experts said cordyceps can grow through the insect's body, draining it of nutrients and hijacking its mind.

From then on, he transforms into a living creature without any determination. 

However, although

The Last of Us

poses a zombie apocalypse with humans devastated after ingesting flour contaminated by the fungus, specialists suggest that

human body temperatures are too high to allow cordyceps to grow.

Is Cordyceps dangerous in humans

?


Despite the above evidence, there are dissonant voices.

Scott Roberts, a professor of infectious diseases at Yale School of Medicine issued a stark warning.

He wrote on his website: "In the '

The Last of Us

' universe,

rising temperatures due to global warming causes Cordyceps to evolve and adapt to the temperature of the human body.

"Troubling scenario raises the HBO series. This may be true in real life," added Roberts. 

"Climate change is another risk factor for fungal diseases that has given rise to a worrying pathogen," the specialist concluded. 

Cordyceps.

The fungus that took an ant.

Gretchen, obsessed with mushrooms, was undeterred and continued to experiment with cordyceps in her home. 

The woman noted, "If you live in the American South, this is probably right outside your door. Let's go find it."

In a tree on the beach, next to his house, he saw some cordyceps that had taken an ant hostage.

In the video, from TikTok, Gretchen said: "Oh, this ant is a zombie. See that the fungus is very dangerous for some species of insects. That's what I was talking about!"

"The Last Of Us".

HBO's dystopian series.

Gretchen is also a fan of eating cordyceps.

She even explained that she grows the zombie mushroom in her basement and that she often eats it in various preparations.

Especially, salads and as an accompaniment to pasta.

His case is related to that of another man who "attempted to start a pandemic similar to

The Last of Us

 by cultivating an

apocalyptic mushroom

also in the basement of his home. According to this "cultivator",

cordyceps would help improve sexual activity with his couple.  

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Source: clarin

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