The new HBO series The Last of Us is making waves, raking in a steady stream of high reviews. Based on a game of the same name, it鈥檚 set in a world where a has mutated to infect and zombify humans.
In this bonus episode of the podcast, Bethan Ackerley asks if this could actually happen in real life. She鈥檚 joined by fungal pathogens expert Professor Matthew Fisher of Imperial College London.聽
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