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  2. Gaëtan Dugas - Wikipedia

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    In the Patient Zero study, the average length of time between sexual contact and the onset of symptoms was 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 months. [8] While Shilts' book does not make such an allegation, the rumour that Dugas was the principal disseminator of the virus became widespread. [15] In 1988, Andrew R. Moss published an opposing view in The New York ...

  3. Patient Zero (film) - Wikipedia

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    Patient Zero is a 2018 science fiction horror film directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky and written by Mike Le. The film stars Matt Smith, Natalie Dormer, John Bradley, Stanley Tucci, Agyness Deyn, and Clive Standen. The plot involves a group of survivors who set out to find an antidote for a highly contagious virus that turns the infected into a ...

  4. History of HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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    In Randy Shilts' 1987 book And the Band Played On (and the 1993 movie based on it), Dugas is referred to as AIDS's Patient Zero instead of "Patient O", but neither the book nor the movie states that he had been the first to bring the virus to North America. He was incorrectly called "Patient Zero" because at least 40 of the 248 people known to ...

  5. Bengalis - Wikipedia

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    Their ethnonym, Bangali, along with the native name of the Bengali language and Bengal region, Bangla, are both derived from Bangālah, the Persian word for the region. Prior to Muslim expansion , there was no unitary territory by this name as the region was instead divided into numerous geopolitical divisions.

  6. List of massacres in Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    Name Date Location Deaths Notes 1971 Bangladesh genocide: starting 25 March 1971 – 16 December 1971 Various places in Bangladesh 200,000–3,000,000

  7. Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    The term Bangla is a major name for both the Bengal region and the Bengali language. The origins of the term Bangla are unclear, with theories pointing to a Bronze Age proto-Dravidian tribe, [28] and the Iron Age Vanga Kingdom. [29] The earliest known usage of the term is the Nesari plate in 805 AD.

  8. Bangladeshis - Wikipedia

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    Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the permanent residents of the former East Pakistan were transformed into citizens of a new republic. [48] Bangladesh is the world's eighth most populous nation. The vast majority of Bangladeshis are ethnolinguistically Bengalis, an Indo-Aryan people.

  9. Bengali language - Wikipedia

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    Bengali, [a] also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা, Bāṅlā, ⓘ), is a classical Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.