Transmission of Gonorrhea from Person to Person. Gonorrhea is considered to be contagious between people. Generally the infectious agent may be transmitted by saliva, air, cough, fecal-oral route, surfaces, blood, needles, blood transfusions, sexual contact, mother to fetus, etc.Gonorrhea, although infectious, is not a genetic disease.It is not caused by a defective or abnormal gene. The contagious disease, Gonorrhea, can be transmitted: 1  by sexual conduct between people.ontagion and contagiousness refers to how easily the spread of Gonorrhea is possible from one person to another. Other words for contagion include infection, infectiousness, transmission or transmissability. Contagiousness has nothing to do with genetics or inheriting diseases from parents.