Talk:Gaëtan Dugas

message: Per NPR abt 24 hours ago, the facts are
# The widespread ID'n of GD as the predominant vector into N Amer reflected nothing more than misconstruings of his code name,
# He got labeled as the vector before anyone had anything close to evidence adequate to identify the vector
# Tho the article doesn't make clear who knew and when they knew it, there were cases in the US (probably thousands of cases) years before he was infected. 
   While i'm not prepared to edit definitively, i am editing urgently.--Jerzy•t 10:19, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Not prepared to edit definitively, but editing urgently?  Not sure why. Mercster (talk) 10:35, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Patient O (oh) as in "'''O'''utside [US]", namely in Canada, misread as "zero" and thus misunderstood as patient zero 

message: That to me it's that he was believe for years to be patient zero, and now is "convincingly clear" per BBC.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37767179  Let's largely go with this. FriendlyRiverOtter (talk) 16:20, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Let's summarize most notable information in very first sentence

message: "... who once was widely regarded as "Patient Zero" or the primary case for AIDS in the United States."
When I tried to correct this bad English to "the first case of AIDS" I was reverted. Why? What I wrote was not less accurate and is better English. Grassynoel (talk) 00:35, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  The primary case for AIDS? 

message: Dugas' year (and exact date) of birth is currently (Dec 2020) listed differently in various Wikipedia language versions:
DE: 20 February 1953 [1]   (also FR, IT, ES, NL, ZH, PL) 
EN: 19 February 1952 [2]
RU: 20 February 1952 [3]
Most recent sources since 2006 have probably copied the dates from Wikipedia (his birthday is listed in the Englisch Wikipedia since 2006), so sources from before 2006 are probably to be preferred.
The Chicago Tribune writes in his newspaper from 1 november 1987 [4]:
QUEBEC CITY, March, 1984-Dugas had survived his fourth bout with pneumocystis and appeared to be on his way to recovery. [...] The model was on the plane east when Dugas died in Quebec City. It was March 30, a month past Dugas` 31st birthday, and nearly four years since he had first gone to see the doctor in Toronto about the purple spot near his ear..
If he lived to see his 31. birthday in 1984, he must have been born in 1953. 
Does anyone know more reliable sources? And what about the exact day (Februrary 19 or 20)?
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga%C3%ABtan_Dugas
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga%C3%ABtan_Dugas
[3] https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8E%D0%B3%D0%B0,_%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%8D%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD
[4] https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-11-01-8703230166-story.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.194.212.113 (talk) 12:33, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year of birth: 1952 or 1953   (different across Wikipedia language versions) 

message: The Patient Zero theory was faulted for ascertainment bias, being based largely on data provided by Dugas. The theory was reportedly rejected based on “a genetic study that looked at blood samples taken from gay and bisexual men in 1978 and 1979”. Is this not simply a different though less obvious form of ascertainment bias? 67.193.139.175 (talk) 18:06, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ascertainment bias?