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"Standard modern treatment is to isolate the source of infection and to kill off all the pathogens before they can mutate, also maintaining high levels of hygiene. For a number of reasons this has rarely been successful." Sorry, I meant "rarely successful" in completely eliminating the disease...

The diseases could have begun in humans in a number of ways. They could have been microbes, bacteria or fungi that lived harmlessly on humans (or animals or even plants that entered the human body) and then mutated. Diseases mutate, like other life forms, their success is then a matter of...