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Science Clears Name of "Patient Zero"
科學(xué)家為“零號(hào)病人”正名
An Air Canada flight attendant who was accused of bringing HIV to the US has been cleared by science. Gaetan Dugas was vilified as "The Man Who Gave Us AIDS" in a New York Post article in 1987. The gay man from Quebec, Canada became a scapegoat for the epidemic after boasting of having many sexual partners. A new scientific study has officially cleared Dugas's name more than thirty years after his death. Scientists used a sophisticated gene sequencing technique to trace the history of HIV in North America. The study found that HIV spread to New York from the Caribbean around 1970 before spreading westward across the US.
一位加拿大航空公司的乘務(wù)員被指控將艾滋病病毒帶到了美國(guó)，科學(xué)界已經(jīng)為其澄清了名聲。1987年紐約郵報(bào)的一篇文章稱，蓋坦·杜加斯是“將艾滋病病毒帶往美國(guó)”的人。這位來(lái)自加拿大魁北克的男同性戀在吹噓擁有多位性伴侶之后，便成為了艾滋病的替罪羊。杜加斯死后三十多年，一項(xiàng)新的科學(xué)研究正式澄清了他的名聲?？茖W(xué)家利用一項(xiàng)熟練的基因序列測(cè)定技術(shù)追蹤了北美的艾滋病歷史。該研究發(fā)現(xiàn)艾滋病病毒在傳至美國(guó)西部之前，大約在1970年就從加勒比海傳到了紐約。
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