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American Church
Are Not Your Friends
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Gaétan Dugas was a handsome Air Canada flight attendant who passed
away at the age of 31 of complications from AIDS on March 30, 1984
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Are Not Your Friends
H.I.V. Arrived in the U.S. Long Before ‘Patient Zero’
In the tortuous mythology of the AIDS
epidemic, one legend never seems to die: Patient Zero, a.k.a. Gaétan
Dugas, a globe-trotting, sexually insatiable French Canadian flight
attendant who supposedly picked up H.I.V. in Haiti or Africa and spread it to dozens, even hundreds, of men before his death in 1984.
Mr.
Dugas was once blamed for setting off the entire American AIDS
epidemic, which traumatized the nation in the 1980s and has since killed
more than 500,000 Americans. The New York Post even described him with
the headline “The Man Who Gave Us AIDS.”
But after a new genetic analysis of stored blood samples, bolstered by some intriguing historical detective work, scientists on Wednesday declared him innocent.
The
strain of H.I.V. responsible for almost all AIDS cases in the United
States, which was carried from Zaire to Haiti around 1967, spread from
there to New York City around 1971, researchers concluded in the journal
Nature. From New York, it spread to San Francisco around 1976.
The
new analysis shows that Mr. Dugas’s blood, sampled in 1983, contained a
viral strain already infecting men in New York before he began visiting
gay bars in the city after being hired by Air Canada in 1974.
The researchers
also reported that originally, Mr. Dugas was not even called Patient
Zero — in an early epidemiological study of cases, he was designated
Patient O, for “outside Southern California,” where the study began. The
ambiguous circular symbol on a chart was later read as a zero, stoking
the notion that blame for the epidemic could be placed on one man.
Myths
like that of Patient Zero echo in prevention efforts even today,
experts said. Many vulnerable groups, including young gay men and
African women, fail to use protective drugs or avoid testing because
they fear being stigmatized or accused of being carriers.
Reflecting
on the epidemic’s early days, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, then a doctor
treating AIDS patients and now the director of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he remembered it seeming
plausible at the time that one person was responsible.
In hindsight, he added, the idea now
seems absurd. “We were unaware of how widespread it was in Africa,” Dr.
Fauci said. “Also, we thought, based on very little data, that it was
only about two years from infection to death.”
The new data is consistent with the scenario described in 2011 in “The Origins of AIDS,” by Dr. Jacques Pépin, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec.
Relying on previous genetic research
and African colonial records, Dr. Pépin showed that H.I.V. was carried
from Kinshasa to Haiti in the 1960s — most likely by one of the
thousands of Haitian civil servants recruited by the United Nations to
work in the former Belgian Congo after colonial rule collapsed.
In Haiti, he theorized, a few cases were multiplied by unsterile conditions at a private blood-collecting company,
Hemo-Caribbean, that opened in 1971 and exported 1,600 gallons of
plasma to the United States monthly. Plasma clotting factors were used
by American hemophiliacs, many of whom died of AIDS.
Haiti was also a sex-tourism destination for gay men, another route the virus could have taken to New York.
The
blood samples analyzed in the new study were collected in 1978 and 1979
in New York City and San Francisco as part of an effort to make a
hepatitis B vaccine. Researchers stored almost 16,000 blood samples;
nearly 7 percent of those from New York and 4 percent of those from
California later turned out to be infected with H.I.V.