Gaëtan Dugas
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Gaëtan Dugas 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 cl
Gaëtan Dugas
Selma Dritz
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Selma Kaderman Dritz was an American physician and epidemiologist who worked in San Francisco, California, where she began tracking the first known cases of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in the
Gaëtan Dugas
…sociopathic behaviour by allegedly intentionally infecting, or at least recklessly endangering, others with the virus. Shilts interviewed epidemiologist Selma Dritz, who reported that in 1982, she informed Dugas that he was infecting other people, but he refused to cease having casual sex in spite of this. Dugas…
Selma K. Dritz, 1988