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 zero ...

'Patient Zero,' Gaetan Dugas, Exonerated By HIV Research : Shots - Health News A Canadian flight attendant had been blamed by media for years for bringing HIV to the U.S.

A 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.

Gaetan Dugas Rand Gaynor via Nature ... Dugas, who died of AIDS-related illness in 1984, was posthumously vilified by the media as the man who brought HIV to the U.S.

Gaetan Dugas, a Canadian flight attendant, was wrongly labelled "Patient Zero", due to a "typographical error", with people mistaking the letter "O" for zero Credit: Getty Images.

Gaetan Dugas has been described as ‘one of the most demonised patients in history’ – but it has finally been proven that he was just one of the disease’s many victims.

Patient Zero, then, is a myth and always has been. As scientists pointed out as early as 1988, the timing never made sense: Even if the CDC’s diagram had labeled Dugas 0 for Patient Zero, its ...

Gaétan Dugas has been wrongfully demonized as “Patient Zero.” Here’s everything you need to know about the late flight attendant, who has scientists to thank for clearing his good name: 1.

Dugas’s blood, which was sampled in 1983, had an HIV strain that had already widely hit gay men in New York before he began making the rounds in the city after being employed by Air Canada in 1974.

Gaetan Dugas would walk into a gay bar, scan the crowd and announce to his friends, ”I am the prettiest one.” Usually his friends had to agree. His sandy hair fell boyishly over his forehead.

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 zero ...

A new HIV study clears the name of Gaëtan Dugas, called patient zero, and provides new insight into how the virus spread to the United States.