How to Use patient zero in a Sentence
patient zero
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Know More Rose is an unlikely patient zero for the fever that has since consumed the right.
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Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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Health officials have also still not identified patient zero, and traced more than 35,000 people who have come in contact with infected patients as of last week.
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Vanessa Etienne,
PEOPLE,
22 June 2026
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As with that now infamous meme, there is typically a user who can be identified as a patient zero of sorts, the catalyst for its spread across timelines and, eventually, into our collective consciousness.
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Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
24 Feb. 2026
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Reuters reported Thursday that investigators with the DRC health ministry are working backward to find the first case—patient zero—and have identified what may have been an early superspreader event on February 4.
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Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
12 June 2026
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Courtesy of Centner Wellness She began by healing herself, becoming the patient zero of her own practice, experimenting with hyperbaric oxygen, red-light therapy, frequency beds, supplements, coffee enemas, and more.
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Stephan Rabimov,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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