A fungal disease could soon bring infected cicadas to your backyard. Massospora cicadina is a fungal pathogen that infects ...

This is a sexually transmitted zombie disease,” Cooley said. Here’s what we know. The zombification of a cicada or cicada swarm is pretty graphic, the white fungus pooling in its crevices.

The only way to truly experience periodical cicadas and their zombie cicada ... But the main way the fungus spreads is through mating, making this a sexually transmitted disease despite no ...

And yes, the fungus takes control over the cicada, makes them hypersexual, looking to spread the parasite as a sexually transmitted disease. “They’re zombies, completely at the mercy of the ...

The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ... Should We Worry About a Real-Life ‘Last of Us’? While the zombie fungus can’t infect humans, other fungi can cause serious health ...

"There's no evidence they're causing disease in humans ... You can sleep easy knowing there won't be a fungus that turns you into a zombie in your cereal tomorrow morning. But COVID, researchers ...

Before the advent of antiretroviral therapy, HIV infections would routinely devastate people’s immune systems, leading to outbreaks of fungal disease almost never seen before. Thankfully ...

A disease-causing fungus featured in the post-apocalyptic TV series The Last of Us could lead to a gamechanging cancer drug, scientists say in a new study. In the dystopian world of the TV series ...

While Ophiocordyceps is likely the best-known zombie fungus, it’s certainly not the only one ... there had been a few reports published in relatively small journals, describing summit disease in wild ...

The disease, also called “Zombie Deer Disease” is 100% fatal ... TSE’s make up a family of diseases thought to be caused by misfolded proteins called prions and include similar diseases ...