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Jun 2023
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300: Mass Murderer or Misconception: Who...

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For decades, one man has been blamed for bringing AIDS to the United States and knowingly spreading is from coast to coast. He's known as Patient Zero. He's been vilified as a narcissistic, sex crazed, maniac without whom AIDS might not have become a worldwide pandemic. But how much of that is true?

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