Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic by Richard A. McKay

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

Richard A. McKay

400 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging informative slow-paced
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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 emer...

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