{"id":1620,"date":"2016-11-04T02:36:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T08:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2023-10-31T01:38:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T07:08:03","slug":"aids-the-patient-zero-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/aids-the-patient-zero-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"AIDS: The Patient Zero Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HIV.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1623\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HIV.jpg?resize=620%2C412\" alt=\"HIV\" width=\"620\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HIV.jpg?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HIV.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As is becoming the norm, DNA testing is once again using old blood samples to overturn a decades-old assumption, a rather heart-breaking one. Historical research, initiated by Cambridge University, has dispelled a long-held myth that the HIV epidemic in North America had a nucleus, or starting point, specifically, Ga\u00e9tan Dugas. A French-Canadian gay man, Dugas was pointed at by the media, as the cause of the 80s-wide spread of the then-new disease, and even given the moniker, \u201cPatient Zero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The name, since flirted with in other outbreaks of disease, is specific to the AIDS era, which birthed it. A lack of sufficient knowledge, concerning HIV, seems to have been paramount in the scapegoating of Dugas, a mistake not rectified in Dugas\u2019 lifetime, even though Dugas cooperated with giving a great deal of personal information. Sadly, Dugas was only cleared of the dubious status he received posthumously.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/10\/161026132930.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AIDS: The making of the &#8216;Patient Zero&#8217; myth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As is becoming the norm, DNA testing is once again using old blood samples to overturn a decades-old assumption, a rather heart-breaking one. Historical research, initiated by Cambridge University, has dispelled a long-held myth that the HIV epidemic in North America had a nucleus, or starting point, specifically, Ga\u00e9tan Dugas. A French-Canadian gay man, Dugas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sexual-health-2","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}