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And the Band Played On used the term "Patient Zero" and put significant focus on Dugas, with media reports expanding his role in the epidemic further. A 2016 study confirmed that Dugas did not bring HIV to the United States, and he was not Patient Zero, via genetic analysis of stored blood samples, supported by historical detective work.
David Lawrence Kirby (December 6, 1957 – May 5, 1990) [1] was an American HIV/AIDS activist, and the subject of a photograph taken at his deathbed by Therese Frare.The image was published in Life magazine, [2] which called it the "picture that changed the face of AIDS".
American man who was the first to be considered cured of HIV. Known as the "Berlin patient". [264] Adam Castillejo (born circa 1980) Second person to have been considered cured of HIV. Known as the "London patient". [265] Gaëtan Dugas (1953–1984)
Timothy Ray Brown, otherwise known as the “Berlin patient,” was the first person to enter HIV remission, after receiving bone marrow and stem cell transplants in 2007 and 2008, effectively ...
Robert Lee Rayford [1] (February 3, 1953 – May 15, 1969), [2] sometimes identified as Robert R. due to his age, was an American teenager from Missouri who has been suggested to represent the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America.
Brown, born on March 11, 1966, became known as the "Berlin Patient" after his HIV was cleared by treatment there in 2007. Timothy Ray Brown, the first person known to be cured of HIV when he had a ...
Kimberly Ann Bergalis (January 19, 1968 – December 8, 1991) was an American woman who was one of six patients purportedly infected with HIV by dentist David J. Acer, who was infected with HIV and died of AIDS on September 3, 1990.
The New York patient was the second person with HIV to receive a haplo-cord transplant in hopes of curing the virus. However, the first person died of his cancer soon after his 2013 treatment.