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Table 13. Gonorrhea — Reported Cases and Rates of Reported Cases by State, Ranked by Rates, United States, 2015

 
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Rank* State Cases Rate per 100,000 Population
1 Louisiana 10,282 221.1
2 North Carolina 19,809 199.2
3 Mississippi 5,775 192.9
4 South Carolina 8,206 169.8
5 Oklahoma 6,542 168.7
6 Arkansas 4,780 161.1
7 Georgia 15,982 158.3
8 Alaska 1,113 151.1
9 Alabama 7,196 148.4
10 Missouri 8,942 147.5
11 Texas 39,717 147.3
12 Ohio 16,564 142.9
13 Delaware 1,310 140.0
14 California 54,135 139.5
15 Illinois 17,130 133.0
16 New York 25,561 129.4
17 Tennessee 8,386 128.0
18 Nevada 3,630 127.9
U.S. TOTAL† 395,216 123.9
19 South Dakota 1,048 122.8
20 Arizona 8,245 122.5
21 Florida 24,125 121.3
22 New Mexico 2,489 119.3
23 Indiana 7,843 118.9
24 Maryland 6,858 114.8
25 Kentucky 4,678 106.0
26 Michigan 10,330 104.2
27 Washington 7,171 101.6
28 Pennsylvania 12,791 100.0
29 Virginia 8,099 97.3
30 North Dakota 684 92.5
31 Wisconsin 5,260 91.4
32 Nebraska 1,703 90.5
33 Kansas 2,536 87.3
34 Hawaii 1,239 87.3
35 Montana 844 82.5
36 Colorado 4,387 81.9
37 Oregon 3,232 81.4
38 New Jersey 7,228 80.9
39 Minnesota 4,097 75.1
40 Iowa 2,247 72.3
41 Connecticut 2,088 58.1
42 Massachusetts 3,817 56.6
43 Rhode Island 580 55.0
44 Utah 1,562 53.1
45 West Virginia 769 41.6
46 Maine 417 31.4
47 Wyoming 175 30.0
48 Idaho 472 28.9
49 Vermont 155 24.7
50 New Hampshire 245 18.5

*States were ranked by rate, then by case count, then in alphabetical order, with rates shown rounded to the nearest tenth.

†Total includes cases reported by the District of Columbia with 2,742 cases and a rate of 416.2, but excludes outlying areas (Guam with 147 cases and rate of 91.3, Puerto Rico with 620 cases and rate of 17.5, and Virgin Islands with 52 cases and rate of 49.9).

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