Patient Zero in AIDS crisis was misidentified, study says, ... “We found no evidence that Patient 0 was the first person infected by this lineage of HIV-1,” they wrote in the paper.

For more than 30 years, Gaétan Dugas was blamed for bringing the AIDS epidemic to the United States. But this week, scientists finally cleared the name of the man who, in the history of the AIDS ...

An altered image purports to show Dr. Anthony Fauci on the cover of a 1987 newspaper about AIDS "Patient Zero." Fauci was not on the original paper.

A study of the early genetic diversity and history of the HIV-1 epidemic in North America through sequencing of eight full-length viral genomes from the 1970s. Through the sequencing of eight near ...

The virus that causes AIDS emerged in New York City in 1970 or 1971 — a decade before it ... we found no evidence that Patient 0 was the first person infected by this lineage of HIV-1,” the ...

In it, Mr. Dugas was identified as "patient O" –the letter "O" indicating he was from outside California – but the label evolved, and the letter was turned into the number "0." ...

Aids blamed on ‘Patient Zero’ man for decades because of horrifying typo. Gaetan Dugas has been described as ‘one of the most demonised patients in history’ – but it has finally been ...

When patient zero was first used in relation to a person living with AIDS, it was as if that person contained the kinetic energy and evil of an atomic weapon.And when it was invoked decades later ...