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Now an award-winning documentary feature film The search for a ?patient zero??popularly understood?to be the first person infected in an epidemic?has been key to media coverage of?major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet?the?term?itself?did not exist?before the?emergence of the HIV/AIDS?epidemic in the 1980s. How did?this idea so swiftly come to exert such a?strong grip on the scientific, media, and popular consciousness??In?Patient Zero, Richard A. McKay interprets a wealth of?archival sources and?interviews?to demonstrate how this seemingly new concept drew upon centuries-old ideas?and fears?about contagion and social disorder. McKay presents a carefully documented and sensitively written account of the life of Ga?tan Dugas, a gay man whose skin cancer diagnosis in 1980 took on very different meanings as the HIV/AIDS epidemic developed?and who received widespread posthumous infamy when he was incorrectly identified as patient zero of the North American .

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