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 ...

In the early 1980s, well before he started his second career as a professor of public health in the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, William Darrow was a social scientist at the ...

Chances are you haven’t heard of Gaetan Dugas, but you know him. For decades, he’s been “Patient Zero,” the man who brought HIV to the United States, the promiscuous, homosexual flight attendant who ...

MICHAEL S. GOTTLIEB teaches at UCLA's medical school where he is affiliated with the AIDS Institute. He is a trustee of the Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance (www.thegaia.org). I MET MICHAEL, the man ...

It's one of the biggest medical mysteries of our time: How did HIV come to the U.S.? By genetically sequencing samples from people infected early on, scientists say they have figured out when and ...

For decades, there was a belief about how HIV/AIDS spread to the US — that it was due to one flight attendant. But that may be wrong. For decades, there was a belief about HIV/AIDS and how it spread ...

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, ...

The search for a "Patient Zero"--Popularly understood to be an epidemic's first infected case--has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the ...

For more than 30 years, Gaétan Dugas was blamed for bringing the AIDS epidemic to the United States. A French-Canadian who died in 1984, Dugas was thought to have carried the disease to America and ...

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 ...