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Gaëtan Dugas (French: [ɡaetɑ̃ dyɡa]; February 20, 1953 – March 30, 1984) was a Québécois Canadian flight attendant whose role in the early years of the AIDS epidemic attracted considerable attention.
Jul 25, 2019 · Gaëtan Dugas was a Quebec flight attendant falsely accused of bringing AIDS to America. Laurie Lynd's documentary exposes the homophobia and media bias behind the 'patient zero' story and its impact on the AIDS crisis.
Oct 27, 2016 · New research has proved that Gaëtan Dugas, a French-Canadian flight attendant who was dubbed “patient zero,” did not spread HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, to the United States.
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Oct 26, 2016 · A team of researchers at the University of Arizona sequenced HIV virus taken from Canadian flight attendant Gaetan Dugas, the man called "Patient Zero" in the best-selling book And the Band...
- Michaeleen Doucleff
Oct 26, 2016 · His breakthrough came one day in April when three men from three different counties told Darrow that they had had sex with the same person: a French Canadian airline steward named Gaétan Dugas....
- Sara Reardon
- 2016
Jul 26, 2019 · Gaetan Dugas was a French-Canadian Air Canada flight attendant who died of AIDS in 1984, aged 32. That’s early in the epidemic; just a few years before, the disease was still...
Oct 27, 2016 · In 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...
