Pancakes won’t turn you into a zombie as in HBO’s ‘The Last of Us,’ but fungi in flour can make people sick

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 bodies and turn them into zombies.  Read More