Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TORONTO — Veteran Toronto director Laurie Lynd taps into the myth-busting 2017 book “Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS ...

During 1981, Gaetan Dugas, a French-Canadian airline steward, was having sex with possibly hundreds of men. Unbeknown to them, Dugas, later known as “Patient Zero,” was inflicting upon them a virus ...

Gaetan Dugas. Recognize the name? In case you may have forgotten, Gaetan is better known in AIDS infamy as Patient O. A pretty, blond Canadian airline steward, he purportedly brought the HIV ...

Gaetan Dugas was not just an early victim of HIV: He was the victim of an epic false accusation. As a flight attendant in the late ’70s and early ’80s, Dugas flew all over the world with a free love ...

The genetic codes sequenced from the virus of eight men infected early in the AIDS epidemic don’t match those from Gaetan Dugas, the man dubbed Patient Zero and blamed for bringing HIV to North ...

The immediate and widespread use of this phrase has prompted some criticism, on social media and in the broader media sphere. Andrew Lipman, an environmental historian, tweeted at Michael Barbaro, ...

While many people may not know his name, Gaëtan Dugas, a gay, Canadian flight attendant, has been seen as one of the most central figures involved in the story of how HIV/AIDS came to the United ...

Laurie Lynd's documentary 'Killing Patient Zero' tells the story of the man falsely accused of spreading AIDS in North America. By Frank Scheck The title makes it sound like a Cold War spy thriller, ...

TORONTO — Veteran Toronto director Laurie Lynd taps into the myth-busting 2017 book “Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic” for a documentary feature that reframes the legacy of Quebec ...