GAETAN Dugas is the French Canadian flight attendant that many in the US know as “Patient Zero” — the first man to have and spread HIV in America — has been exonerated by new research.

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.

Dugas’ name and identity first became known to the world thanks to “And the Band Played On,” an international bestseller by journalist Randy Shilts published in 1987. Often regarded as the definitive ...

While Shilts writes, “Whether Gaetan Dugas actually was the person who brought AIDS to North America remains a question of debate and is ultimately unanswerable,” he asserts just a few lines ...

Gaëtan Dugas was a multifaceted human being, faulty at times, but generous as well. That is not well construed when many people think of him as the Patient Zero of the HIV and AIDS crisis of the ...

The connections started falling into place. Of the first 19 cases of GRID in Los Angeles, four had had sex with Gaetan Dugas. Another four cases had gone to bed with people who had sex with Dugas ...

L'auteur utilise en premier le terme de "témoin zéro" pour qualifier le québécois. Il s'agit d'une erreur, le chercheur du CDC avait anonymisé ses témoins. Gaëtan Dugas est appelé "patient O (la ...

Trente-six ans après sa mort, Gaétan Dugas est redevenu un patient parmi d’autres. Sida : le patient zéro, de Laurie Lynd (Can., 2019, 95 min). Audrey Fournier.

Dugas a été démonisé pendant plusieurs décennies et longtemps après sa mort, explique le professeur adjoint au département d’histoire de l’Université Laurentienne.. Au début des ...

L’historien Serge Miville revient sur l’histoire du canadien, Gaétan Dugas, qui a longtemps été considéré comme le patient zéro à l’origine de l’introduction du sida en Amérique du ...

The most remarkable—and most affecting—chapter of Patient Zero is the last one, in which McKay attempts to reconstruct Dugas’s life story and his true views. As McKay writes, in 2008, he ...