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About 1 1/2 % of the people in US have gonorrhea.
In the US and Canada, a little over one in a hundred adults betwen 15-49 years are infected.
According to the compiled statistics at wrongdiagnosis.com, the CDC estimates there are about 650,000 new cases in the US each year (2001) of which about 370,000 are reported.

In 1997, 324,901 cases of gonorrhea in the United States were reported to the CDC, a case rate of 122/100,000. (Source: excerpt from Sexually Transmitted Diseases Statistics, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID). Official organisations estimate 400,000 for more recent years, with the same number unreported. That would mean there were 244 cases per 100,000 people, a infection rate of about 0.25%.

Put it another way: somebody gets infected in the US on average every 40 seconds.

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