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Forget the post match should I laugh or cry...get a load of this... 22:19 - Dec 15 with 622 views

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/15/scientists-find-two-new-spec

The unusual tactic of keeping the host alive while releasing spores is called active host transmission (AHT). It is an effective way of getting access to other healthy individuals. Scientists think the fungi could be producing substances that “dope” their hosts (sometimes colloquially referred to as “zombies”), meaning they can stay fresh enough to live for days after infection — only collapsing once there is nothing left in their abdomens but the fungus.

“We suspect therefore that these fungi may produce amphetamine-like substances which keep a fly’s energy levels high up until the end,”Â
( The Lambert fungus perhaps)

[Post edited 15 Dec 2020 22:23]

	"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
Poll:	Do you wipe after having a piss?

Forget the post match should I laugh or cry...get a load of this... on 22:51 - Dec 15 with 508 views

Ipswich_Crazy

Oh, So we gonna get a zombie apocalypse now are we?

Poll:

Are fans getting fed up with Sky Sports changing our Kick off schedules?

Forget the post match should I laugh or cry...get a load of this... on 22:54 - Dec 15 with 497 views

BanksterDebtSlave

Forget the post match should I laugh or cry...get a load of this... on 22:51 - Dec 15 by Ipswich_Crazy
Oh, So we gonna get a zombie apocalypse now are we?

Only if you're a fly.

	"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
Poll:	Do you wipe after having a piss?

Forget the post match should I laugh or cry...get a load of this... on 23:01 - Dec 15 with 471 views

StokieBlue

I saw a documentary once in which an theoretical alien invasion was undertaken by modifying spores that then took over humans, made them climb high and then exploded the human so the spores infected loads more people.

It was based on this example and was rather grim:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/04/cordyceps-zombie-fungus-takes

SB

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