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WingsOfGood posted...

so in theory there is a chance something like this might one day infect humans

I guess, that is good reason to hope a God exists who loves humans and would prevent such a thing

that is so you can sleep at night lol

Not exactly the same but Rabies is a similar kind of idea if you think about it and can infect humans. It's not a fungus but similarly it causes a variety of weirdly specific symptoms to propagate itself to others. The virus thrives in saliva so one thing it does is cause a severe fear of water in hosts so that your saliva will accumulate more. And it causes the host animal to be extremely violent so that you're more likely to bite other things and spread that rabies-saliva around.

Here's some more cool ones:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-altering_parasite