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Could fungi actually cause a zombie apocalypse?

  • Written by Matt Kasson, Associate Professor of Mycology and Plant Pathology, West Virginia University
Could fungi actually cause a zombie apocalypse?A zombie cicada fungus, _Massospora cicadina_, has consumed the rear end of this periodical cicada, replacing it with a 'plug' of chalky spores.Matt Kasson, CC BY-NDCould fungi actually cause a zombie apocalypse?

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