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...took only a single paragraph (four sentences, 91 words) to change the course of an ancient debate. "There is now no doubt," said Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in his grim report on AIDS last month, "that we need sex education in schools and that it must include information on heterosexual and homosexual relationships." With characteristic bluntness, Koop made it clear that he was talking about graphic instruction starting "at the lowest grade possible," which he later identified as Grade 3. Because of the "deadly health hazard," he said later, "we have to be as explicit as necessary...
What gave the panel findings extra punch was that they followed by only a week an equally grim report by U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop that urged an all-out effort to educate the populace, beginning with young children, to the dangers of AIDS and ways to avoid them. Though they worked independently, Koop and the NAS committee each knew of the other's studies. Their reports contained little that had not been published before in the way of scientific information about AIDS or predictions about its spread. What distinguished them from previous pronouncements was the authority of their...
Last week a committee of 28 biologists, clinicians, public-health scientists and other experts assembled by the prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences gave some grim answers. AIDS, according to the panel's 374-page report, "could become a catastrophe" unless the spread of the killer virus is checked. That will require "perhaps the most wide-ranging and intensive efforts ever made against an infectious disease," specifically research and education programs that would probably cost $2 billion a year, at the minimum...
...Latin for slimy liquid, stench, poison -- and the connotation is appropriate, not only for the AIDS virus but for the untold number of other varieties that have been preying on animals and plants since long before Homo sapiens appeared on earth. Indeed, the current AIDS epidemic is a grim reminder that these infinitesimal, bizarre creatures may be mankind's deadliest enemy. And scientists are warning that a perennial viral threat, the upcoming flu season, could be far more dangerous than usual -- more evidence that these tiny foes are responsible for a large share of human suffering...
...against that grim background last week that Koop, in a dramatic report to the public (see box), warned that AIDS will spread beyond its current high-risk groups into the general population. He called for greater use of the only weapons currently at hand for controlling the AIDS epidemic: education about the disease beginning as early as the third grade and prevention. Koop's report was educational in itself. It was comprehensive and accurate, and its warnings were expressed in sexually explicit language that readers could not fail to understand...