Teens Ignore AIDS Warnings: Koop

WASHINGTON — Teen-agers are having more sex despite government warnings of the danger of getting the deadly AIDS virus, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop said today.

“We do know that teen-agers are not listening,” Koop said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” He said that infectious syphilis and penicillin-resistant gonorrhea spread faster in 1987 than at any other time in 16 years and that 3 of every 1,000 college students tested positive for AIDS, according to a study this year. “It’s probable that most of those (college) people contracted their HIV (AIDS) infection while still in high school,” Koop said.