{"id":750053,"date":"2023-03-08T13:39:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T17:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=750053"},"modified":"2023-03-08T13:39:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T17:39:04","slug":"pancakes-wont-turn-you-into-a-zombie-as-in-hbos-the-last-of-us-but-fungi-in-flour-can-make-people-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=750053","title":{"rendered":"Pancakes won&#039;t turn you into a zombie as in HBO&#039;s &#039;The Last of Us,&#039; but fungi in flour can make people sick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the HBO series &#8220;The Last of Us,&#8221; named after the popular video game of the same name, the flour supplies of the world are contaminated with a fungus called Cordyceps. When people eat pancakes or other foods made with that flour, the fungi grow inside their bodies and turn them into zombies.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-pancakes-wont-zombie-hbo-fungi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pancakes won&#8217;t turn you into a zombie as in HBO&#8217;s &#8216;The Last of Us,&#8217; but fungi in flour can make people sick<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the HBO series &#8220;The Last of Us,&#8221; named after the popular video game of the same name, the flour supplies of the world are contaminated with a fungus called&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}