The virus that causes AIDS emerged in New York City in 1970 or 1971 — a decade before it was identified, says an international team of researchers, led by evolutionary biologist Michael Worobey of the ...

A Canadian flight attendant, Gaëtan Dugas, was wrongly blamed as 'Patient Zero' for the AIDS epidemic. This damaging myth persisted for decades. New genetic research has now definitively cleared his ...

A Catholic Funeral Mass will be held Saturday, December 6, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. at Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church for Novella Chiasson Dugas, 97, who died December 1, 2025, in Carencro, ...

Gaetan Dugas moves like a shark throughout the opening moments of Randy Shilts’ remarkable feat of HIV and AIDS reporting “And the Band Played On.” Dugas is a strikingly attractive French-Canadian ...

Par Funding CEO Joseph LaForte was sentenced to 15 and a half years in prison on Wednesday for conspiring with his brother to commit the attack on former Philadelphia Bar Association chancellor Gaetan ...

He was not Patient Zero, but Patient O and, more accurately, Case 057. And, as a Tucson researcher has helped definitively prove, he was not the person who introduced the virus that causes AIDS to the ...

A decade ago, in a graduate seminar on “problems” in the history of medicine, my classmates and I began noticing something we came to call “the AIDS epilogue.” A great many books by historians of ...

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Linda Jean Dugas, age 73, on October 16, 2024. Born on January 7, 1951, she was the adoring and steadfast wife of Daniel Dugas, proud mother of ...

76, of Johnston, passed away Sunday July 9, 2023 at home surrounded by her loving family. Born in Providence, she was the beloved daughter of Anna (Domoradska) Perrillo and the late Domenic Perillo.

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. In the spring of 1982, epidemic intelligence officers were ...

Dave Dugas a resident of Hopewell Junction, NY died on October 7, 2022 at Maplewood of Danbury Assisted Living Center. He was born on April 30,1951 in Rumford, Maine and was the third son of Charles ...

Carroll James Dugas, 91, a native of New Iberia, LA and resident of Houma, LA, passed away September 19, 2022, surrounded by his loving family. A visitation will be held in his honor on Friday, ...