TWiV 417: O is the loneliest letter
Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello,\xa0Dickson Despommier,\xa0Alan Dove,\xa0Rich Condit, and\xa0Kathy Spindler
The\xa0Fellowship of the Virus trace the early history of HIV in North America, based on genome sequences obtained from late 1970s archival sera, which also reveal that Gaetan Dugas was not Patient Zero.
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- World AIDS Day
- Early\xa0HIV/AIDS history\xa0in North America (Nature)
- Dugas was not\xa0AIDS patient zero\xa0(virology blog)
- Image credit
- Letters read\xa0on TWiV 417
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