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==Gaetan Dugas==

==Gaetan Dugas==

The first patient zero was a [[Canadian]] named Gaetan Dugas<ref>http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9905570</ref>, a highly promiscuous [[homosexual]] who claimed to have sex with approximately 250 men each year,<ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,965791,00.html</ref> and over 2,500 sex partners in his lifetime.<ref>http://www.leadershipnow.com/leadershop/1696-2excerpt.html</ref> His work as a flight attendant took him to many cities and afforded him more sexual partners. The U.S. [[Centre for Disease Control]] linked him to 40 of the first 248 cases of AIDS in North America.<ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,965791,00.html</ref>

The first patient zero was a [[Canadian]] named Gaetan Dugas,<ref>http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9905570</ref> a highly promiscuous [[homosexual]] who claimed to have sex with approximately 250 men each year,<ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,965791,00.html</ref> and over 2,500 sex partners in his lifetime.<ref>http://www.leadershipnow.com/leadershop/1696-2excerpt.html</ref> His work as a flight attendant took him to many cities and afforded him more sexual partners. The U.S. [[Centre for Disease Control]] linked him to 40 of the first 248 cases of AIDS in North America.<ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,965791,00.html</ref>

In June 1980, Dugas was diagnosed with Kaposi's Sarcoma, a viral infection considered a common symptom of the AIDS virus. After his diagnosis, Dugas was warned that this could be caused and spread by a sexually transmitted virus, but he selfishly refused to stop having unprotected sex, claiming that he could do what he wanted with his body. According to Randy Shilts, he allegedly informed some of his sex partners, just after having sex, that he had the "gay cancer" and perhaps they would get it too.<ref>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21653369/ns/health-second_opinion/</ref>

In June 1980, Dugas was diagnosed with Kaposi's Sarcoma, a viral infection considered a common symptom of the AIDS virus. After his diagnosis, Dugas was warned that this could be caused and spread by a sexually transmitted virus, but he selfishly refused to stop having unprotected sex, claiming that he could do what he wanted with his body. According to Randy Shilts, he allegedly informed some of his sex partners, just after having sex, that he had the "gay cancer" and perhaps they would get it too.<ref>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21653369/ns/health-second_opinion/</ref>

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