Songbird
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Interesting read about how scientists have pretty much debunked the myth that Gaetan Dugas started AIDS (lol) in 1979.
It begins with a single man, a young flight attendant named Gaetan Dugas, who presumably became infected abroad and then unwittingly gave it to some of his sexual partners. His sexual partners in turn gave it to their sexual partners and so forth until the whole continent was full of clusters of people dying of the mysterious disease. In journalist Randy Shilt’s 1987 book, ‘‘And the Band Played On,’’ and in various media reports, he was described as sexually adventurous and said to have told Centers for Disease Control investigators he had approximately 250 sexual partners each year.
It’s a compelling narrative, but it’s not quite right.
The story of how HIV reached the United States is all wrong - The Boston Globe
It begins with a single man, a young flight attendant named Gaetan Dugas, who presumably became infected abroad and then unwittingly gave it to some of his sexual partners. His sexual partners in turn gave it to their sexual partners and so forth until the whole continent was full of clusters of people dying of the mysterious disease. In journalist Randy Shilt’s 1987 book, ‘‘And the Band Played On,’’ and in various media reports, he was described as sexually adventurous and said to have told Centers for Disease Control investigators he had approximately 250 sexual partners each year.
It’s a compelling narrative, but it’s not quite right.
The story of how HIV reached the United States is all wrong - The Boston Globe
