Who was the Patient Zero for AIDS?

Question

Who was he? What was his life like? What did he do? How old was he? When did he die? I need good links about patient zero for my AIDS/HIV history report.

Answer 1

No one really knows who patient zero (the first person to spread the disease widely) was.
A Canadian airline steward named Gaëtan Dugas was referred to as "Patient 0" in an early AIDS study by Dr. William Darrow of the Centers for Disease Control. Many people consider Dugas to be responsible for bringing HIV to North America. This is considered inaccurate, as HIV had spread long before Dugas began his career. This rumor may have started with Randy Shilts' 1987 book And The Band Played On (and the movie based on it, in which Dugas is referred to as AIDS' Patient Zero), but neither the book nor the movie state him to have been the first to bring the virus to North America. He was called "Patient Zero" because at least 40 of the 248 people known to be infected by AIDS in 1983 had had sexual intercourse with him, or with someone who had sexual intercourse with him.
Dugas was featured prominently in Randy Shilts's book And the Band Played On, which documented the outbreak of AIDS in the United States. Shilts portrayed Gaetan as having almost psychopathic behavior, by allegedly intentionally infecting others with the virus. Gaëtan was described as being a charming, handsome sexual athlete, who, according to his own estimation, averaged hundreds of sex partners a year. He claimed to have had over 2,500 sexual partners across North America.[3] As a flight attendant he was able to travel the globe at little cost to such early HIV epicenters as Los Angeles, New York, Paris and San Francisco. After being warned that his Kaposi's Sarcoma could be caused and spread by a sexually-transmitted virus, Dugas refused to stop having unprotected sex, and allegedly informed certain sex partners that he had the "gay cancer" and perhaps they would get it too.

Dugas died in Quebec City on March 30, 1984 as a result of kidney failure caused by continual AIDS-related infections[4].

However, four years after the publication of Shilts' article, Dr. Darrow repudiated his study, saying that its methods were flawed and claiming that Shilts had misrepresented its conclusions.

Answer 2

Actually it is believed that there probably wasn't just one patient zero for AIDS. It is theorized that AIDS started in Africa. It is known that apes have a strain of AIDS but it doens't harm them. It is believed that when people were craving up ape for dinner people might have cut thier hand and got some AIDS tainted Ape blood in and then got AIDS

Answer 3

and then another disease could "pop up". it could have not have been given any use. besides, how could you be attentive to affected person 0? do not kill the affected person, kill the very first micro organism that led to it.

Answer 4

No one knows.