Gaëtan Dugas

Canadian flight attendant and early AIDS victim (1952–1984)

Gaëtan Dugas (French: [ɡaetɑ̃ dyɡa]; February 20, 1952 – March 30, 1984) was a Canadian flight attendant widely claimed to be "patient zero" for the North American AIDS epidemic, as popularized notably by Randy Shilts's 1987 book And the Band Played On. The claim has been refuted through subsequent scientific scrutiny. Genetic analysis later determined that several thousand gay men already had HIV in the United States prior to Dugas' own infection.

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