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Can you get gonorrhea without having sexual contact with someone who's not infected?
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No: You cannot get gonorrhea without having sex with an infected partner.
Answered 3/29/2013
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Possible not probabl: With a laboratory-proven diagnosis of gonorrhea the overwhelming majority of the time the source is sexual contact with an infected individual. It is possible to contract it in other ways but extremely rare/unlikely.
Answered 4/7/2018
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