1. Patient Zero: Gaetan Dugas
Jayne and Heidi

2. Health and the 80’s Health care crisis of the 70’s
Health care costs skyrocket
Due to high costs of treatment, new tech, and hospitals changing needs
1980’s Corporation involvement
Healthcare related businesses start, corporations start getting involved
1990’s Double Crisis
Healthcare costs rise at double the speed of inflation in the U.S.
Healthcare reform fails to pass, again, in the U.S. Congress

3. HIV/AIDS
HIV is a virus that attacks cells of your body’s immune system
If left untreated, HIV develops into AIDS
Auto Immune Deficiency Disorder
When the body’s immune system is overtaken by the HIV virus and can no longer defend itself against even weak illnesses
Viewed as the “gay cancer” in the 80s
Named due to the outbreak first appearing in gay men

4. Gay Rights and Freedoms in the 80’s
Gay culture started getting more attention with the appearance of HIV/AIDs
More attention didn’t mean good attention
Court of Appeal ruled that there was no “fundamental right” to be gay
Catholic church continued attack on gays
1982, US Army declared homosexuality to be incompatible with service
Protests continued against gays and gay rights
With so many people protesting comes violence
The gay community faced lots of shaming and violence that they became uncomfortable
The video gives insight to what the gay community had to face in the 80s, stereotyping with “Leather outfits”

5. Gay Rights and Freedom in the 80s
At the same time, the attention was gaining positive feedback also
1982- Wisconsin became the first state to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation
1984-The city of Berkeley, California, became the first city to offer its employees domestic- partnership benefits.
Second annual Lesbian Gay Pride March in Burlington

6. The Outbreak: How it all started
November 1st, 1980 young gay man named Nick
Went to the hospital after a seizure and losing consciousness
Diagnosed with toxoplasmosis, a normally mild illness
CDC Starts Research into this new disease
15 deaths and 52 cases in New York alone
Interviews with homosexual men in New York and their recent sexual encounters lead back to one person: Gaetan Dugas
July 3rd, 1981
New York times prints the first story of rare pneumonia and skin cancer in gay men
The first visibility of the disease
1982 report on AIDS outbreak

7. Gaetan Dugas: His Life Born 1953, died in 1984 Flight attendant
Traveled around the world
Part of the gay community
Canadian citizen
Assumed to have 2500 sexual partners across the US

8. Patient Zero
CDC assumed Gaetan was the first person to bring AIDs to the United States
October 1980, Dugas went on his first trip to New York which caused all of the early cases of infections to be linked to him
Lead to him being known to spread AIDS from coast to coast
Hypothesis: Gaetan carried the virus out of Africa and introduced it to the western gay community
Researcher Randy Shilts said Dugas had 2500 sexual partners within a 10 year span
Randy Shilts wrote “And the Band Played On”
CDC tried to control Dugas when it came to his health care
9:36-11:06
Scientists at the university of arizona were able to see the diseases structure changes and Gaetans structure was not the first structure they found

9. Patient Zero
Later on, studies showed that the spread of AIDs in the United states had actually started in New York in the 70’s
Proving that Gaetan had not started the outbreak in the United States
2007- discovered that AIDs was brought from Haiti to the United States in 1969
Diagnosed with Kaposi’s sarcoma, a cancer that was frequently found in AIDs patients
Diagnosed in 1980 and passed away in 1984 at 31 years old

10. Impact/Thesis
Overall, Patient Zero had an amazing impact on the culture of the 80’s and 90’s by changing and bringing more attention to medical care and LGBT rights, and ultimately ‘starting a fire’ in those areas to bring change.

11. Sources
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McKay, Richard A. "“Patient Zero”: : The Absence of a Patient’s View of the Early North American AIDS Epidemic." Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Johns Hopkins University Press, n.d. Web. 20 May 2016.
"Health Care Crisis." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 20 May 2016.
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