A Canadian flight attendant had been blamed by media for years for bringing HIV to the U.S. A new study proves that's impossible. The virus that took hold came from Haiti in the early 1970s.

The man blamed for bringing HIV to the United States just had his name cleared. New research has proved that Gaëtan Dugas, a French-Canadian flight attendant who was dubbed “patient zero ...

Dugas’s blood, which was sampled in 1983, had an HIV strain that had already widely hit gay men in New York before he began making the rounds in the city after being employed by Air Canada in 1974.

Gaetan Dugas has been described as ‘one of the most demonised patients in history’ – but it has finally been proven that he was just one of the disease’s many victims.

Gaetan Dugas could not have been the first person to bring the virus that causes Aids to the US, according to an international team of geneticists, whose study was published in Nature on Wednesday.

Gaetan Dugas. Recognize the name? In case you may have forgotten, Gaetan is better known in AIDS infamy as Patient O. A pretty, blond Canadian airline steward, he purportedly brought the HIV ...

For 30 years, scientists and the general public thought Gaëtan Dugas was “patient zero” for the AIDS virus. Every time a disease outbreak occurs in America, doctors search for “patient zero ...

The man blamed for bringing HIV to the United States just had his name cleared. New research has proved that Gaëtan Dugas, a French-Canadian flight attendant who was dubbed “patient zero ...