Select the option including all sexually transmitted diseases.
- Cancer, AIDS, Syphilis
- Gonorrhoea, Malaria, Genital herpes
- Gonorrhoea, Syphilis, Genital herpes
- AIDS, Malaria, Filaria
Answer
(3) Gonorrhoea, Syphilis, Genital herpes
Solution
As per NCERT, gonorrhoea, syphilis, genital herpes, chlamydiasis, genital warts, trichomoniasis, hepatitis-B and HIV leading to AIDS are common sexually transmitted infections.
Cancer is not an infection; malaria and filariasis are transmitted by mosquitoes, not by sexual contact.
∴ Gonorrhoea, syphilis and genital herpes are all STIs.
Answer: (3)