H.I.V. Was in the U.S. Long Before ‘Patient Zero’. (cover story)

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      The article discusses genetic research which suggests that Gaétan Dugas, commonly referred to as Patient Zero who allegedly spread the HIV virus to hundreds of men, was not responsible for the epidemic in the United States. It reports that the analysis of Dugas's blood, sampled in 1983, contained a viral strain that was already present in men in New York before Dugas arrived in 1974.