As It Happens6:26Scientists discover rare fungus that infects and takes over the bodies of spiders
With recent attention around the HBO drama The Last of Us and its infectious fungus that turns people into zombies, the timing of a recent discovery in the Brazilian rainforest perhaps couldn’t have been better.
Mycologist João Araújo is one of a team of scientists who believe they have discovered a new parasitic fungus that infects a species of spiders and takes over their bodies.
“It was amazing,” Araújo told As It Happens host Nil Köksal.
Araújo and his colleagues were doing research as part of a collaboration between England’s
