{"id":899063,"date":"2026-10-29T19:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T19:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/899063\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T19:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T19:12:07","slug":"what-parasites-fungi-and-zombies-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/899063\/","title":{"rendered":"What parasites, fungi and zombies have in common"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"WLVFX7FGLFE2RPWRAOBU7NKFQ4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Zombies have taken many forms in popular culture. In Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sOnqjkJTMaA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thriller<\/a>\u201d music video, corpses climb out of their graves and perform an impressively coordinated dance. In HBO\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/pancakes-wont-turn-you-into-a-zombie-as-in-hbos-the-last-of-us-but-fungi-in-flour-have-been-making-people-sick-for-a-long-time-200428\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Last of Us<\/a>,\u201d a fungus infects humans, takes over their bodies and turns them into hosts that help spread the infection. Even Plankton tried his hand at taking control of another organism in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/spongebob.fandom.com\/wiki\/Plankton!\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpongeBob SquarePants<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zombies have taken many forms in popular culture. In Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201cThriller\u201d music video, corpses climb out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-899063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}