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America?s HIV outbreak started in this city, 10 years before anyone noticed
BY Nsikan Akpan October 26, 2016 at 3:59 PM EDT HIV arrived in New York City precisely 10 years before doctors first noticed the disease, a conclusion that?s based on new research published today in Nature. The finding solves a 35-year-old mystery surrounding the origins of America?s outbreak, the first in the world to be noticed by doctors.
It confirms the virus passed from the Caribbean to New York in the early 1970s, where the disease gained a foothold for at least half a decade, before triggering outbreaks in places like San Francisco. The study also clears the name of Ga?tan Dugas, so-called ?Patient Zero,? who had been wrongly blamed for bringing the virus to U.S. shores...
America?s HIV outbreak started in this city, 10 years before anyone noticed
BY Nsikan Akpan October 26, 2016 at 3:59 PM EDT HIV arrived in New York City precisely 10 years before doctors first noticed the disease, a conclusion that?s based on new research published today in Nature. The finding solves a 35-year-old mystery surrounding the origins of America?s outbreak, the first in the world to be noticed by doctors.
It confirms the virus passed from the Caribbean to New York in the early 1970s, where the disease gained a foothold for at least half a decade, before triggering outbreaks in places like San Francisco. The study also clears the name of Ga?tan Dugas, so-called ?Patient Zero,? who had been wrongly blamed for bringing the virus to U.S. shores...