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As it stands, these mind-warping parasites only affect certain ... is likely to be a little bit different. Since human skin is thicker than a fungi can dig through, the spores need to get into ...

The next episode of HBO's Emmy-winning sci-fi series "The Last of Us" Season 2 comes out April 20. Here's what time it will ...

Sir David Attenborough thereby coined this disease struck creature as the Gibellula attenboroughii, a disease where the ...

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