How are fungi helpful to humans and how are they harmful?

Fungi are helpful to us in the products they produce but may also be harmful for the diseases they cause.
Helpful fungi may be edible
Portabella mushrooms
Button cap mushrooms
Shitake mushrooms
Where I live, people search for sponge fungi or morels
Helpful fungi may produce products we can use
Yeast makes our bread rise
Fermentation creates beers, wines, other alcoholic beverages and ethanol as a gasoline additive
Soy sauce
Some of the stinky cheeses people enjoy
Fungi are harmful as they cause disease
Rusts and smuts on farm crops and orchards
Athletes foot
Oral thrush
Yeast infections
Last, one of fungi’s most important roles, they are decomposers in the environment. Returning nutrients to the soil that were bound up in an organisms tissues…the circle of life