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  2. Gaëtan Dugas - Wikipedia

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    And the Band Played On used the term "Patient Zero" and put significant focus on Dugas, with media reports expanding his role in the epidemic further. A 2016 study confirmed that Dugas did not bring HIV to the United States, and he was not Patient Zero, via genetic analysis of stored blood samples, supported by historical detective work.

  3. Index case - Wikipedia

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    The index case or patient zero is the first documented patient in a disease epidemic within a population, [1] or the first documented patient included in an epidemiological study. [2] It can also refer to the first case of a condition or syndrome (not necessarily contagious) to be described in the medical literature, whether or not the patient ...

  4. Killing Patient Zero - Wikipedia

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    Killing Patient Zero is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Laurie Lynd and released in 2019. [1] The film is a portrait of Gaëtan Dugas, the Canadian man who was one of the earliest diagnosed HIV/AIDS patients in North America, but became incorrectly demonized as "patient zero" for the epidemic after his role in the early story of the disease was used to illustrate contact tracing in ...

  5. Patient zero: why it's such a toxic term - AOL

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  6. History of HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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    In Randy Shilts' 1987 book And the Band Played On (and the 1993 film based on it), Dugas is referred to as AIDS's Patient Zero instead of "Patient O", but neither the book nor the movie states that he had been the first to bring the virus to North America. He was incorrectly called "Patient Zero" because at least 40 of the 248 people known to ...

  7. Zero Patience - Wikipedia

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    Zero and Burton examine an old blood sample of Zero's under a microscope and discover Miss HIV (Michael Callen), who points out that the original study that was used to label Patient Zero as the first person to bring HIV to North America did not prove any such thing, but instead helped prove that HIV was sexually transmitted, leading to the ...

  8. Patient cured of HIV and leukemia is ‘extremely grateful’ 5 ...

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    Timothy Ray Brown, otherwise known as the “Berlin patient,” was the first person to enter HIV remission, after receiving bone marrow and stem cell transplants in 2007 and 2008, effectively ...

  9. Victims react to new intelligence community report that ... - AOL

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    Havana Syndrome 'Patient Zero' Rejects Intelligence Community Findings That Foreign Adversary 'Very Unlikely' Adam was one of six Havana Syndrome victims to attend a meeting in the White House ...