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Bookmark or Share- Gaëtan Dugas - WikipediaGaëtan Dugas (French: [ɡaetɑ̃ dyɡa]; February 19, 1952 – March 30, 1984) was a Québécois Canadian flight attendant whose role in the early years of the AIDS epidemic attracted considerable attention.
- How researchers cleared the name of HIV Patient Zero | NatureIn 1982, the Canadian air steward Gaétan Dugas wrote of his worsening illness in a letter to Ray Redford, his former lover. Believing he had what was being called “gay cancer”, Dugas had shaved...
- AIDS, from the Perspective of “Patient Zero” - JSTOR Daily“THE MAN WHO GAVE US AIDS,” it claimed, was a Canadian flight attendant named Gaétan Dugas, whose frequent sexual encounters and travels across the country had “triggered the ‘gay cancer’ epidemic in the US.” Much has been written since about Dugas and his supposed refusal to obey the recommendations of public health officials in the early 1980s.
- America’s HIV outbreak started in this city, 10 years before ... - PBSA new study pinpoints exactly when HIV arrived in the U.S., while also exonerating Gaëtan Dugas, a man once branded as "patient zero" and blamed for starting the outbreak. Full Episode Thursday...
- Gaëtan Dugas: The truth about ‘patient zero’ and HIV’s origin - CNNCNN — The man blamed for bringing HIV to the United States just had his name cleared. New research has proved that Gaëtan Dugas, a French-Canadian flight attendant who was dubbed “patient...
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