European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Aids and the heterosexual population is there danger of an epidemic by Erik Eckholt new York times e adding off the proliferated of aids among heterosexuals has be in to preoccupy Many health officials who to Cognac Ornaf pa5tf ignorance and a Nelra allowed inn Latuli disease to course through the populations of i mos Oual men and intravenous Druy users wih , Al duct the gathering concern v.\i5 evident in the surgeon general s Elia Ordinary recent plea that children he spoken to frankly about sex. Drugs and aids although recent studies have shown conclusively Hal the virus Hal causes aids or acquired immune off fac Styli slice on current disease patterns could be dangerously lulling Gul sentor cd my scion Juls and Runny other experts Hellove the infection is still quite rare among Hel i or j Iiah. Except Tor those who use intravenous jq5 or who ioquonl1y have sex partners who do in data Are sparse estimates of the number of americans carrying inc Afos virus Range irom Hafl a million to 2 million most of them Homos Vual men or heroin users nearly 27,000 aids cases have been reported to Dale scientists co Noi Koiv whal portion of virus carriers will eventually develop Ino disease among heterosexuals most experts agree sexually Active residents of the inner City Laca Iho greatest Inanc Flitalo danger nowhere is this threat greater than in new York and Northern new be Scy. Where duly Needles arc a consign conduit of aids up to now. Most Velero sexually infected aids victims have Uia n the Perl Nurs of heroin addicts and most have been Blick or Hii Patiic women this explains Why our Oul of live children who Slevc Hopefl aids Afler being Inlet led Al birth have been Lack or hispanic minority teen agers and Young adults in Urban areas already Suller Iho country s highest Rales of venereal disease observes Dean f. Echenberg. Of the san Francisco department of Heath arid in the Bugh incr Jenco of drug abuse and this group seems Ripe Tor a wildfire epidemic of alos he warned. Scie Norsis and health of finals at a recent conference sponsored by the Mon Leflore medical Center in the Bronx. N y. On the Hetero sexual transmission of aids agreed that the Public at Large Musl be alerted to the rising wards of unprotected promiscuous sex no one dissented when Mervyn Silverman direct roof is american foundation Lor aids research said educators should talk less Aboul risk groups and More about risky activities All applauded new York City s health commissioner Stephen c Joseph when he declared the Day of the condom has but preventive efforts mus locus Wilh special intensity most experts agreed on intravenous drug addicts and their sex partners the primary sources of aids infection among he Erose a 5. No effective attack has been mounted on the spread of aids by shared Needles health experts also caution against any relaxing of preventive education about Safe sex among homosexual and bisexual men although half the homosexuals in a few cities May already be infected a majority nationwide Are not and some especially men who Only occasionally engage in homosexual acts May not realize Ine exceptional danger excluding immigrants irom Haiti and Africa where heterosexual transmission of aids is common the proportion of american aids cases traced to Helem sexual Intercourse Vilh a partner from a known risk group is 2 , up from 1 percent in earlier Yoars of the epidemic four out of five of inese patients Are women. Up photo technologist examines me Rolal lubes using a Tuttem which Lio Talei the microorganisms in Fie Wood that attack aids victims. At Many a 2 million americana May to carrying the aids virus. Page 16 the stars and stripes when cases among imm Granis Are counted. He total share of the country s cases attributed to heterosexual Contact is 4 percent Only a few american cases Are known to have developed from aids virus infection that had been passed along so Many times that neither partner had any reason to suspect the possible exposure. Such an extended spread of the virus May however account or some of Ine 3 percent of cases with no explained cause said or Harold Jarech Al of aids epidemiology Al the Federal centers Tor disease control. In new York City 156. Or 2 percent of the 7,696 aids cases lolled As of sept 15 were attributed to heterosexual Contact. But among cases reported in the sunday november 9,1986 first nine months of 19b6, the proportion has dropped to below 1 percent. Eighty percent of these patients Are Black or hispanic. Cases of presumed heterosexual origin among immigrants Are excluded trom these figures of those t56 patients 154 Are women and Only 2 Are Man leading Mew York health officials to argue against the Grain of much expert opinion elsewhere hat passage Al the wus a rom female to male in Intercourse is extremely rare. New York officials assert that their Dala May reflect a More tenacious and accurate investigating procedure. They argue that Many apparent heterosexual cases involve men who Are concealing past drug use of
