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It's Okay to Be Smart
How HIV Started a Century Before Anyone Noticed
Season 14
Episode 8
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 origins—from chimpanzees in Central Africa to a global pandemic—and how science unraveled one of the biggest myths in modern medicine.
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