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Pancakes won't turn you into a zombie as in HBO's 'The Last of Us,' but fungi in flour have been making people sick for a long time

  • Written by Sheryl Barringer, Professor of Food Science and Technology, The Ohio State University
Pancakes won't turn you into a zombie as in HBO's 'The Last of Us,' but fungi in flour have been making people sick for a long timeA human fungal zombie from the TV show 'The Last of Us.'Liane Hentscher/HBO

In the HBO series “The Last of Us,” named after the popular video game of the same name, the flour supplies of the world are contaminated with a fungus called Cordyceps. When people eat pancakes or other foods made with that flour, the fungi grow inside their...

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