The video game series that spawned the new hit HBO drama,
The Last of Us, is the zombie genre with a twist. Instead of the standard viral pandemic or bacterial disease that's pushed humanity to the brink, but a fungus that has evolved to survive in human bodies in part due to climate change.
Short Wave's Aaron Scott talks with fungal researcher
Asyia Gusa about the science that inspired
The Last of Us and the real threats fungal researchers see in the ever-warming world.
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