What Is True About the Current Rates of Gonorrhea

question 57

Multiple Choice

What is true about the current rates of gonorrhea?

• A) Rates have stayed the same since the 1990s.
• B) Rates have steadily increased since the 1990s.
• C) Rates were decreasing, leveled off for about 10 years, and have since been decreasing again.
• D) Rates have increased each year between the years 2009 to 2012.

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