While many people may not know his name, Gaëtan Dugas, a gay, Canadian flight attendant, has been seen as one of the most central figures involved in the story of how HIV/AIDS came to the United ...

Taylor Swift’s ‘Patient Zero’ revives a term once used to vilify Gaétan Dugas, the gay man wrongly blamed for bringing AIDS to the US.

Before scientists even had a name for AIDS, fear shaped the story long before facts could catch up. In the early 1980s, doctors across several US cities began seeing clusters of gay men with rare ...

Gaetan Dugas. Recognize the name? In case you may have forgotten, Gaetan is better known in AIDS infamy as Patient O. A pretty, blond Canadian airline steward, he purportedly brought the HIV ...