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How HIV Started a Century Before Anyone Noticed

πŸ“° Crosscut πŸ• July 16, 2026 at 9:15 PM
How HIV Started a Century Before Anyone Noticed

For decades, one man was blamed for bringing AIDS to America. But the “Patient Zero” story was wrong. This is the story of how genetic detective work traced HIV’s true originsβ€”from chimpanzees in Central Africa to a global pandemicβ€”and how science unraveled one of the biggest myths in modern medicine.