"Patient Zero"
Since I don't intend to read the book, do you mind telling me where 'he' caught it?
I can't remember, but I am pretty sure it was Africa, probably catching it from a bisexual who hunted/ate chimps or was otherwise exposed to chimp blood.
It is chronicaled in "And The Band Played On" (the book and movie). In real life, Patient Zero was a gay Canadian flight attendant named Gaëtan Dugas.
The queers try to discredit all the CDC work pin pointing Dugas because: (1) Dugas the epitome of the bathhouse queer, gleefully and irresponsibly spreading the disease and (2) they try to claim it is a heterosexual disease.
Truth hurts.