Zombie attacks caused by the Cordyceps fungus like in the series 'The Last of Us' are very terrible. It is described that the human brain can be controlled to behave aggressively and infectiously.
If you look at the COVID-19 cases that forced humans to make vaccines as fast as lightning, do you think the Cordyceps fungus, like in the series 'The Last of Us', is it possible to fight against vaccines?
"Yes, we have to make vaccines made from anti-fungal. Therefore, the pharmaceutical industry with modern equipment, with biotechnology, can create derivatives of fungi that can fight other fungi, called mushroom antagonists," answered the biologist from the Research Institute. and National Innovation (BRIN) Professor Rosichon Ubaidillah MPhil, PhD.
On the show 'Eureka! 13th Edition: Zombie Attack!', Monday (30/1/2023) evening, Prof. Rosichon said that in nature there will always be antagonists who can 'offer' a threat. For example, fungal attacks, you can definitely find antifungals. So is anticancer. Everything that is used as medicine is based on this antagonistic nature.
"The vaccine is taken from an antagonistic fungus. In the movie 'The Last of Us', you want to produce an antifungal too, right," he explained.
Now, if we already know that there is a potential vaccine against Ophiocordyceps, there are other unique facts. It was explained that Cordyceps is actually also one of the ingredients for medicines in the manufacture of vaccines. As for insects, there is what is known as yellow technology, which originates from insect enzymes whose lives are extreme. Usually, microbes that live in extremes have the ability to kill other microbes because they have to survive.
"In yellow technology, scientists, especially German scientists, continue to explore bioactive names. So chemical components taken from several microbes that produce drugs can produce drugs, one of which is the vaccine earlier," he said.
Thus it can be concluded, that the saying that all diseases have a cure might be true. Most importantly, humans must be diligent in researching, recognizing opponents and living in harmony with nature.