# Gaëtan Dugas

> Canadian flight attendant, long misidentified as the index case of the North American AIDS Crisis (1953–1984)

**Wikidata**: [Q1381697](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1381697)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaëtan_Dugas)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/ga-tan-dugas


## References

1. Czech National Authority Database
2. [Source](http://nypost.com/2015/02/22/how-the-aids-epidemic-really-began/)
3. BnF authorities
4. Find a Grave
5. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013