Killing Patient Zero

Directed by Laurie Lynd

Gaetan Dugas, openly gay during the early 1980s AIDS crisis, faces demonization and misidentification as "patient zero," challenging perceptions of promiscuity and disease origins.
Killing Patient Zero is an excellent corrective to one of the most damaging myths of the AIDS crisis, restoring Gaëtan Dugas as a real person rather than the man falsely blamed for an epidemic. Laurie Lynd combines history, science and personal testimony with clarity and compassion.

Killing Patient Zero

Directed by Laurie Lynd

Gaetan Dugas, openly gay during the early 1980s AIDS crisis, faces demonization and misidentification as "patient zero," challenging perceptions of promiscuity and disease origins.

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Killing Patient Zero is an excellent corrective to one of the most damaging myths of the AIDS crisis, restoring Gaëtan Dugas as a real person rather than the man falsely blamed for an epidemic. Laurie Lynd combines history, science and personal testimony with clarity and compassion.