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Killing Patient Zero

Killing Patient Zero

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 26, 2019

Runtime

1h 39m

Genres

Documentary, History

User Score

59%

Original Title

Killing Patient Zero

Production Companies

Fadoo Productions

Director

Laurie Lynd

Description

After the Stonewall riots and at the height of the gay liberation movement in America, an entire generation were busy celebrating their newfound emancipation, unaware of an impending epidemic. A disease that seemed determined to wipe out an entire generation of gay men, was largely ignored by politicians and the mainstream media. Gaetan Dugas was a French-Canadian flight attendant, who offered to help early scientific research into the origins of AIDS. An unfortunate series of events followed and he would be vilified as Patient Zero, the man who gave us AIDS.