Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
For decades, there was a belief about HIV/AIDS and how it spread to the United States. The common theory was that one man, Canadian-born flight attendant Gaetan Dugas, was responsible, almost like a modern version of "Typhoid Mary."
He was often referred to as Patient Zero. But new evidence has emerged that seems to have debunked this story.
We talk to Professor Michael Worobey, the Department Head of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. He led a team of researchers that published their study this week in the scientific journal, Nature.
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