This article deals with the falsely accused Canadian, flight attendant Gaetan Dugas. When AIDS research was in the early stages, what most people wanted to know besides What is it?," was where did it come from & who did this us. Shortly, due to limited research Dugas's name appeared numerous times & he was dubbed "Patient O". That was the letter not the number. But it was a mistake that took hold & from there om Dugas was known as Patient Zero.
The article goes on to explain how this wasn't the case. He wasn't near the 1st person with HIV in North America. But people do love their blame games. We want a target to hate to revile. Too bad, we got the wrong person. Too bad, it wouldn't have mattered been if he had been the 1st. HIV is still here. I understand the need to know from an epidemiology perspective, but what most people wanted was someone to blame,
Aren't humans so great & wonderful?
Cya...
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