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Patient zero and the making of the AIDS epidemic
AIDS & HIV
Aids (disease), patients
North america, history
LGBTQ anthropology
Epidemics
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Epidemiology
AIDS (Disease)
Historiography
HEALTH & FITNESS
Patients
Diseases
History
The search for a “patient zero”—popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic—has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. How did …
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