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  Coccidioides Immitis
  Native to the Central Valley in California.  I’m a CLS student at a hospital and my trainer just had a patient who’s sputum sample grew this mold.  Very infectious. The mold can be kicked up in the dust and inhaled
context: fun fact: the cordyceps fungus has been found to not touch the ant’s brain. It merely grows through the ant’s muscles and controls its whole body. Which honestly is more terrifying than if it went for the brain. >
  
  That makes The Last of Us even MORE horrifying.
  Imagine being trapped inside that body, fully conscious, as your body attacks people and rips them apart. >
  
  From the game files 
  
  Some survivors believe that the infected person's mind is still intact, but trapped in their own body, as seen by a crying runner that was distressed after attacking, killing, and eating one of her friends.[5] >
  
  Guess it's even more poignant when Ellie asks Joel if it's hard to kill Infected because they were people once.
  They might still be. >
  
  This explains something I wondered about with TLOU. Many infected people were armed, and all things being equal the 9mm exit strategy is a better way to go then letting the fungus kill you. So why didn’t more people take the “World War Z” exit? 
  Its because the fungus wouldn’t let them >
  
  That would be solid if we hadn’t just seen Tess sacrifice herself while infected. >
  
  Spoilers ahead :
  Yes Tess went the martyr route. But they clearly established with the “kiss” Cordyceps can control the host. Looks like it took every ounce of Tess’ formidable willpower to flick that lighter, and physically it didn’t look like the fungus spread that far. If flicking a Zippo is a contest of wills vs the fungus at an early stage of infection, pulling the trigger of a gun is probably impossible. >
  
  Less than a day right? Didn't she get bit earlier that day? 
  If we assume she had control of her body until the infected man walked up to her, then we can assume the fungus hadn't taken control yet. She was slowing down from fear, and the infected sensed the infection in her, and wanted to help it spread. She probably had seconds to ingite that lighter. 
  The fungus spreads fast in optimal conditions, but I don't think we have an understanding of the standard rate of infection from bitten to controlled. 
  *Side note, that scene where Ellie plays with the stuck runner before killing it? Even more chilling if we accept there was a semblance of human consciousness still left. 
  Maybe this also means there isn't just a vaccine, but there could be a treatment depending on how long someone has been infected. >
  
  Killer fungus, so hot right now >
  
  I wonder why  🤔 >
  
  Who am I? >
  
  I'm more worried about fungus that can infect plants and destroy our crops. >
  
  That's another movie (interstellar) >
  
  The next logical movies would be fungus that infects and kills our water and then another movie where fungus infects and kills our air. >
  
  Oh my God, the fungus is the Republican Party! >
  
  At least they don’t kill trillions of sacred American Bald Eagles with oversized fans! >
  
  My good friend, sometimes sarcasm doesn’t translate well, even when greatly over exaggerating. You caught the Reddit karma train today I guess. >
  
  Someone needs to make a sarcasm bot that knows sarcasm and says “it looks like you dropped a /s!” >
  
  I mean “a trillion bald eagles” is pretty clearly a joke, an /s shouldn’t even be necessary lol, but then again here we are, so maybe it was.