One of the biggest changes HBO’s The Last of Us made in season one was to forego the presence of spores. In the video games characters have to wear gas masks when they travel because cordyceps ...

Canker sores, or aphthous ulcers, are small, painful lesions that develop inside your mouth. They commonly appear after stress, minor mouth injuries, or hormonal changes, as well as with certain ...

Canker sores affect nearly everyone at some point, making simple pleasures like enjoying a meal or even carrying on a conversation suddenly uncomfortable. These small but mighty sores can make ...

Canker sores are painful ulcers, we call them aphthous ulcers, that develop in the lining of the mouth, inside your lip, on or under your tongue, on the roof of the mouth, or along the gums. Tulsi ...

(NEXSTAR) – The deadly and drug-resistant fungus Candida auris is under close surveillance as health experts work to calm its spread. Candida auris, also called C. auris, was first identified in ...

I’m really grateful for that. Courtesy of Liane Hentscher/HBO Speaking of the coughing, this episode introduces the concept of airborne spores into the series for the first time. How did you and ...

Instead of using airborne spores as a vector for the Cordyceps fungus to spread, they developed a network of tendrils that gives the Cordyceps a sort of hive-mind capability. If you brush up ...

Ellie follows her in, discovering the entire floor covered in Cordyceps and the air dense with spores* that spread the same zombie infection that destroyed the world decades ago. Ellie even ...

There’s no need for an Infected to bite a person anymore. Merely breathing in the spores will immediately infect and eventually kill a person. This horrifying new development is revealed in ...

Aspergillus is a fungus that can lead to life threatening infections of the lungs and blood stream called aspergillosis, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

They are looking for traces of a deadly fungal disease. The goal is to understand more about the fungus Ophidiomyces ophidiicola, as it is called in Latin. Where does it come from, what kind of ...

Sci-Fi Shows The Last of Us season 2 is bringing in one of the biggest game omissions from season 1 – and the showrunners say it's for a "good reason" Sci-Fi Shows A new kind of Infected was ...