The State - News from Aug. 26, 1987
AIDS is not expected to infect San Francisco’s heterosexual population at the same epidemic rate that it has passed through the city’s homosexual and intravenous drug-user populations, experts say. Statistician Warren Winkelstein Jr. found in a study that the risk of a woman becoming infected through sex with an infected male partner is small--about 12 infections per 1,000 sexual contacts. He also found that heterosexual men had decreased their number of sexual partners.
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