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CDC offers new call to arms on nightmare bacteria

CDC offers new call to arms on nightmare bacteria

08/04/2015 | Rating NR

PBS News Hour

CDC offers new call to arms on nightmare bacteria

Clip: 8/4/2015 | 5m 55s

CDC offers new call to arms on nightmare bacteria

Drug-resistant bacteria infect at least 2 million people and kill 23,000 each year. Now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued a call to slow the rate of hospital-acquired infections. Gwen Ifill talks to Dr. Michael Bell from the CDC about the new recommendations.

08/04/2015 | Rating NR

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