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Index case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (757 words) |
 | The index case or patient zero is the initial patient in the population sample of an epidemiological investigation. |
| Patient zero is a somewhat less specific term than index case and is sometimes used to refer to the central patient in an epidemiological investigation rather than the first patient. |
| Dugas is referred to as "Patient Zero" not because he was the first to be diagnosed with the disease but rather because at least 40 of the 248 people diagnosed with AIDS by April 1982 had either had sex with him or with someone who had. |
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| Supernovas, ice ages, significantevolutionary mutation, and "Patient Zero" Rising up like a phoenix from the ashes of the bands "One Side Red" and "The Original Patient Zero", "Patient Zero" is a musical force to be reckoned with. |
| Easily tiring, however of excelling merely at existing genres, the Zeros have taken their formidable skill and channeled it into the creation of a genre entirely their own, and that is unique to them. |
| Yeah, that's the kind of glue that Mike is. One of the original members of'The Original Patient Zero", Mike had to leave that group when their emotional tour bus pitched off of a cliff and exploded, killing everyone aboard except for Mike and (unfortunately as he felt at the time) Ed. |
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