Can The Zombie Ant Fungus Infect Humans? If you’re worried that the fungus will infect humans and the zombie apocalypse will finally happen, you don’t have to wonder. The fungus is not harmful to humans. Can humans get infected with Cordyceps? The new, unidentified species of Cordyceps turns humans first into violent “infected” and then
Is Ophiocordyceps Unilateralis A Parasite? Ophiocordyceps unilateralis (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) is a specialized parasite that infects, manipulates and kills formicine ants, predominantly in tropical forest ecosystems. Is Cordyceps a parasite? Most Cordyceps species are endoparasitoids, parasitic mainly on insects and other arthropods (they are thus entomopathogenic fungi); a few are parasitic on other fungi. Is Ophiocordyceps