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Oct 31, 2011

D.C.: Home of Zombie Flies With Mind-Controlling Parasite

No, seriously. According to NPR, millions of flies around Washington have been “attacked by a mind-controlling fungus” over the last few months, turning them into little more than doomed spreaders of a deadly curse.

 
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