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Re:Coursera and massive online simulation on epidemics by rjtavares on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @08:42AM (#6552865)
> And yes, we will be talking about Zombies - not human zombies, but zombie ants whose brains are hijacked by an infectious fungus.

Can't beat a sense of humour. That right there made me want to s ign up.

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Re:Coursera and massive online simulation on epidemics by edmccard on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @10:52AM (#6553517)
>but zombie ants whose brains are hijacked by an infectious fungus.

This is the fungus that causes ant zombification:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis

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