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Patient Zero
In this interview, dr. Alvin Friedman Kein, a pioneer AIDS doctor in New York, gives his personal recollection of how he met and treated one of the first known AIDS patients, Gaetan Dugas, a Canadian Air steward, who flew between Montreal, Toronto, San Fransisco, New York and many other cities. He was a gay man has a vast network of casual sexual relations with gay men, in the period when HIV started to spread. Mr Dugas died of AIDS in the early 80´s and was called “Patient Zero” in the media.
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