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Scientists reveal what The Last of Us zombies would REALLY look like

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Scientists reveal what zombies would REALLY look like - and say the possessed humans in the Last of Us Season 2 aren't far off.

Real-life 'zombie-making' fungi burrow into their host's flesh and manipulate their minds to turn them into super-fast and ultra-fast zombies.

As it stands, these mind-warping parasites only affect certain insects.

But the stages of infection are eerily similar to those seen in the HBO show.

Ophiocordyceps fungus saves its host's brain right up until the moment it kills them.

Unlike in The Last of Us , most real zombie fungi don't do this through physical contact.

If real zombies followed a similar pattern, the final stage of the infection would be death.

Massospora cicadina , a fungus which infects cicadas, causes the total destruction of its host genitalia and replaces them with a 'fungal spore mass'.

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