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I considered fungal infections, but what I have caught passes from person to person, infecting your work colleagues, housemates, etc, and I could not find any species of fungus that is contagious person to person.
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There are plenty of parasitic fungi which infect humans and are communicable.
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The human race needs to put the highest priority and effort into (ultimately) completely eliminating infectious diseases.
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This will never happen. You would do well to review a little highschool genetics, or even have a peek at some more advanced molecular biology to see why I make this claim. Transduction and transformation are forces which are too strong for what you propose.
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Even in the West, we are all infected from a young age with dozens of viruses, many if which cause mild or subclinical symptoms or syndromes (such is irritable bowel syndrome, anxiety disorders, depression, etc), and we just go on suffering, since there is little we can do with present medical understanding and technology.
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Many of these "syndromes" have been demonstrated to be a result of our lower parasitic load. Take the case of IBS which is being treated by intentional exposure to some parasites, which help keep IgE levels in-check which in turn reduces the auto-immune toll of IBS.
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But in the future, the whole human race will hopefully become much healthier - in mind and body - if we eliminate these stupid infectious pathogens by some clever technology.
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Biology is a terribly elegant system. We will never be 100% immune / safe.