Editing Misconceptions about HIV/AIDS (section)

===Gaëtan Dugas as "patient zero"===
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The Canadian flight attendant Gaëtan Dugas has been referred to as "[[Index case|patient zero]]" of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, meaning the first case of HIV/AIDS in the United States. In fact, the "patient zero" moniker originated from a misinterpretation of a 1984 study<ref name="Auerbach1984">{{cite journal |last1=Auerbach |first1=D.M. |author2=W.W. Darrow |author3=H.W. Jaffe |author4=J.W. Curran |title=Cluster of cases of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Patients linked by sexual contact |journal=[[The American Journal of Medicine]] |volume=76 |issue=3 |pages=487–92 |year=1984 |doi=10.1016/0002-9343(84)90668-5 |pmid=6608269 }}</ref> that referred to Dugas as "patient O", where the O stood for "out of California".<ref name="Macleans">{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Brian D. |title=How a typo created a scapegoat for the AIDS epidemic |url=https://www.macleans.ca/culture/movies/how-a-typo-created-a-scapegoat-for-the-aids-epidemic/ |access-date=20 April 2019 |publisher=Maclean's |date=17 April 2019}}</ref><ref name="npr.org">{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/10/26/498876985/mystery-solved-how-hiv-came-to-the-u-s|title=Researchers Clear 'Patient Zero' From AIDS Origin Story|website=NPR.org }}</ref> A 2016 study published in ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' found "neither biological nor historical evidence that [Dugas] was the primary case in the US or for subtype B as a whole."<ref name=Nature>{{cite journal |title=1970s and 'Patient 0' HIV-1 genomes illuminate early HIV/AIDS history in North America |first1=Michael |last1=Worobey |author2=Thomas D. Watts |author3=Richard A. McKay |author4=Marc A. Suchard |author5=Timothy Granade |author6=Dirk E. Teuwen |author7=Beryl A. Koblin |author8=Walid Heneine |author9=Philippe Lemey |author10=Harold W. Jaffe |display-authors=2 |journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume=539 |issue=7627 |pages=98–101 |date=October 26, 2016 |doi=10.1038/nature19827 |pmid=27783600 |pmc=5257289 |bibcode=2016Natur.539...98W }}</ref>