Gonorrhea is a sexually-transmitted infection that can be spread through all forms of sexual activity including oral, vaginal, or anal sex.
Although any person who is sexually-active has the potential to contract gonorrhea at any time, most of those infected are people under the age of 30. In the US, seventy-five percent (75%) of all cases involve men and women between the ages of 16-30.
A woman who have vaginal intercourse with a gonorrhea-infected man will have 60-90 percent chance of being infected.
A man who have vaginal sex with an with an infected woman will have a lower 30-50 percent chance of becoming infected.
An infected mother can potentially transmit the infection to her newborn baby during vaginal childbirth.
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