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==Epidemiology and demographics== | ==Epidemiology and demographics== | ||
Gonorrhea is a very common infectious disease. It is more common in large cities, inner-city areas, populations with lower overall levels of education and people with lower socioeconomic status. CDC estimates that more than 700,000 persons in the U.S. get new gonorrheal infections each year. Only about half of these infections are reported to CDC. | Gonorrhea is a very common infectious disease. It is more common in large cities, inner-city areas, populations with lower overall levels of education and people with lower socioeconomic status. *CDC estimates that more than 700,000 persons in the U.S. get new gonorrheal infections each year. Only about half of these infections are reported to CDC. | ||
*In the period from 1975 to 1997, the national gonorrhea rate declined, following the implementation of the national gonorrhea control program in the mid-1970s. | |||
*After a small increase in 1998, the gonorrhea rate has decreased slightly since 1999. | |||
*In 2004, the rate of reported gonorrheal infections was 113.5 per 100,000 persons. | |||
*In 2004, 330,132 cases of [[gonorrhea]] were reported to CDC. | |||
*In 2012, . Global estimates of gonorrhea were estimated 78 million new cases gonorrhea reported | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Priyamvada Singh, MBBS [2]
Epidemiology and demographics
Gonorrhea is a very common infectious disease. It is more common in large cities, inner-city areas, populations with lower overall levels of education and people with lower socioeconomic status. *CDC estimates that more than 700,000 persons in the U.S. get new gonorrheal infections each year. Only about half of these infections are reported to CDC.
- In the period from 1975 to 1997, the national gonorrhea rate declined, following the implementation of the national gonorrhea control program in the mid-1970s.
- After a small increase in 1998, the gonorrhea rate has decreased slightly since 1999.
- In 2004, the rate of reported gonorrheal infections was 113.5 per 100,000 persons.
- In 2004, 330,132 cases of gonorrhea were reported to CDC.
- In 2012, . Global estimates of gonorrhea were estimated 78 million new cases gonorrhea reported