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by 7thaccount 1973 days ago
Wait...isn't cordyceps the fungus that takes over ants, bursts out of their skull, and then cause them to effect others? That sounds like something I'd run away from at full speed.
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Do you have a link with more info? I just popped 2 of these [1] an hour ago as I had eaten some kind of food/protein bar that tasted like it contains pea protein, a known trigger of mine. I live in a country where I can't read the language so I'm not sure exactly what I ate.

https://www.nowfoods.com/supplements/cordyceps-750-mg-veg-ca...

Google zombie ants. Maybe it's ok for people?
The Wikipedia article contains basically all the information in this bit of the thread, but accurate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyceps