Except for one thing. To get "infected" by it (enough to cause it to develop in your bloodsteam, you have to be compromised by some other disease. Second, it has to be injected into you. You cannot absorb in through lungs or skin. In contrast people got the plague from being bitten by infected fleas. I don't think there are fleas carrying the fungus (I have read up, but don't know that for sure). Also would require rats or some other animal to carry the fleas.
Thinking about the gay community