Article: Heterosexual AIDS May Surge, Koop Says;Estimate of U.S. Infection Rate Seen Too Low

The AIDS epidemic may be "on the threshold" of accelerating its spread among heterosexuals in the United States, according to U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop.

The coming year's statistics could show whether the disease will "explode" among heterosexuals as it did among homosexual males in the early 1980s, Koop said.

"If the heterosexual explosion follows the homosexual explosion, then we are in for unbelievable trouble," said Koop, who made his remarks at a luncheon yesterday with editors and reporters of The Washington Post.

He said he hoped that recent efforts to educate the public on how to avoid infection with the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome would ...

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