The Last of Us Had Clickers. We Got Candida

Zombies aren’t real. But fungal pandemics? Those are already happening — just without the clickers and CGI.

When The Last of Us hit screens, it gave us a fungal apocalypse with cinematic flair. Cordyceps evolved, jumped to humans, and society collapsed into a blood-soaked mess of spores and screams. Viewers binged the series, terrified — not by fiction, …