The Last of Us Cordyceps Infection Explained! Erik Voss interviews an actual scientist to break down the science of The Last of Us!
In HBO’s The Last of Us, the mutated strain of the Cordyceps fungus infects humanity. How plausible is this science fiction scenario? Erik Voss interviews João Araújo, an expert in the Cordyceps fungus working at the New York Botanical Garden. João separates fact from fiction and debunks the myths viewers may have!
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Thank God for chance 😅
I really enjoyed this video please keep doing these kind of videos with experts
Love this! Can't wait for the science of infinity stones!
I thought he was holding a cheese burger in the picture at first
20 years later…
Great questions
So IF the cordeyceps infection did evolve and be able to infect humans, what's keeping other mammals safe? Why are only humans seemingly a threat? If our higher temperatures were what was keeping us safe, the fungi evolved beyond that, why aren't other warm blooded creatures infected???
10ish years late. People talked about that when the game first released.
I take Cordyceps mushroom powder everyday. It's a performance enhancing fungi. It oxygenates your blood, feeding your muscles. It increases endurance and gives you energy. Fungi is amazing. The first plants on earth were created through a cooperation between algae and fungi.
When dr João said many fungi can infect humans, he did not meant in the zombie style thing.
He said something we all know about, so i don't understand the surprise.
Candidiasis
Athletes Foot
Some types of pneumonia
"What is mycosis caused by?
Fungal infections, or mycosis, are diseases caused by a fungus (yeast or mold). Fungal infections are most common on your skin or nails, but fungi (plural of fungus) can also cause infections in your mouth, throat, lungs, urinary tract and many other parts of your body."
Very clearly said. "Unlikely" not impossible.
That makes me happy.
Who gives a shit what these guys think….it's a freaking movie that was turned into a movie/television series…….ITS HOLLYWOOD!!!!!!
i legit didn't know cordycepts existed until i played the last of us. its great that its gotten ppl interested in how it works and Fungi in general.
Could cordyceps infect the queen ant?
You should ask if the can manipulate it in a lab and create a fungus that can infect humans that's the problem and it really should make you worry when the WEF wants us to eat bug's instead of food
But what if humans experiment and do gain of function research that speeds up in force the mutation of the cordyceps. Granting them the ability to bypass our immune system ect? With or with out global warming. The cordyceps are then able to infect mammals like humans. 👍🏽 litterally possible.
Naturally yes cordyceps would not be harmful to humans. But then we need consider how they could be altered through biological research or weaponized. Which I think with a decade of research and enough funding could be possible non the less. Giving the game merit if that approach was more taken.
Parasites affecting human behaviour exist, for example toxoplasma gondii
Hello Mr. Mycologist, there are over 300 pathogenic fungi which very common; don't you find it interesting that the two most common scripts are statins and anti-depressants are both derived from anti-fungals? Cordyceps are good for humans, but not for ants! Fungus does not die from not having water! It goes into stasis. Pathogenic fungus has more DNA than humans! The three Great Kingdoms of life are animal, plant and fungus; the last of which parasitizes the first two. Not all is parasitic tho, medicidal mushrooms healthy AND anti-fungal as parasitic fungus attacks them as well!
Love this interview.
How do you inject an ant with something? 🧐
And this is how cordyceps starts
In comparison to plants and animals fungi are so uniquely beautiful while being comparably foreign and alien to humans. It’s easy to make fungi both terrifying and beautiful. Thanks for the deep dive!
The hallucinogens that might have sparked the Salem witch trials,,,,,
Yes! Science is amazing!
I’d be interested to see his opinion on if naughty scientists decide to do gain of function type research on it would that accelerate the evolution in the lab? How would he contain it? Would a vaccine be possible? Would he trust Firefly to make one?
6:11 oh thank god
But actually there are fungi that infect humans and cause deaths-
oh god
Great interview. Live to see "the science behind" pop culture stuff.
Hopefully the Fallour series will bring the same sort of interest to science
Its a shame theres no spores in the first series. Years aftrr the collapse the spores would be everywhere. With the time and amount of fungus there would be no clean air left. If the fungus can survive inside the hostile environment of a human body it would grow over the whole world in the ocean on it in the air the ground would be covered and thats that. I never played the game but i liked how the spores were in the air or it looked like it from the oarts i saw in vids.
So watch out for people leaving society and avoiding others not going to work and igniring their family as they may be the first of us to be infected lol. What happens if they start to gather together they dont want to be alone they only want to get go to a good place to spread the fungus and morenof them could protect their gardens so they can spread it in the air. What would such a parasite do if it gained acess to a higher being like himans. Luckily pur bodies are very hostile environments.
How global warming leads to fungi being able to survive in human body temperature and then leads to surviving in 400f in the oven when flour is turned into bread and cookies?
OURcologist
Life finds a way
Imagine making fine wine with your feet for the yeast! "Magnificent! It must be Fifi!" You get all the fungus from the barefoot Contessa's toes; Magnificent!
not possible, huh? Nobody thought SARS Covid two was transmittable to humans until Fauci started doing gain of function research.
not possible? Let’s see what a grant, Dr. Fauci and gain of function research can do.
It's the Eywa
I had watched on a pirate site 🤣
So interesting. Thank you for doing this.
Maybe there is debate about this but I am pretty sure the largest living organism is the Aspen trees in Utah that are all connected.
Super high audience
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When y'all were discussing flour being a substrate, and he said it would be too dry, he is correct but he didn't mention how the spores can actually live in that flour even though it's dry and go into a dormant phase and they can wait for years if needed but they would stay in that dorm and stay until it interacted with moisture so basically when people would go to use it and they can even survive heat of being baked, and when they have the right moisture level they can use that flour as a food source to start to grow in
😢 the interrupting is real
Very entertaining
Did he just say "fun-g"
18:50 lots of house pets watch tv now so maybe in a century or so, it’s not so far fetched to have our fur babies experience a lot more out of the media we enjoy. 😊
I have Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis – a fungus in my lungs. It’s in remission, but it almost killed me in 2014. I guess I’m one of the infected 😅
Mushrooms are 70% human I wish people knew this and knew that we have mushroom dna and receptors
I have one simple question, what if let’s say someone had the common cold. Would you be immune to the fungi because of the fact your body temperature increases? Would I be correct or not.
They've been experimenting with this fungal concept in humans for decades.
In fact, what they haven't told you, is that with fertilizing growth agents, the fungus/yeast/hyphae grows and becomes MORE radiotrophic.
And with radiotrophic frequencies, they can get bio information from said human participants…..or victims.
Also, variable levels of ELECTRONIC HYPNOSIS can be performed and/or induced. 💯