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A Superbug Outbreak at NIH
October 22, 2013, 12:45 pm ET by Bill Rockwood and Sarah Childress
Drug-resistant bacteria lurks in hospitals: in sink drains, on equipment passed from room-to-room, on door handles, on the hands of clinicians and hospital workers, and in ventilators and tubes.
One particularly dangerous bug, Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase, or KPC, has been found in American hospitals in 44 states so far. That?s likely an underestimate, since there is no national reporting system to track outbreaks of drug-resistant bacteria at hospitals.
In 2011, KPC came to one of the nation?s flagship research hospitals, the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, known as the NIH. What followed was an outbreak even they still can?t fully explain.
Watch the full story of what happened at NIH and more on the superbug crisis tonight in Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria, starting at 10 p.m. (check local listings). For now, watch a preview of the NIH?s fight in the clip above, and track how they believe the bug may have spread, gathered from their own research, in the interactive below:...
A Superbug Outbreak at NIH
October 22, 2013, 12:45 pm ET by Bill Rockwood and Sarah Childress
Drug-resistant bacteria lurks in hospitals: in sink drains, on equipment passed from room-to-room, on door handles, on the hands of clinicians and hospital workers, and in ventilators and tubes.
One particularly dangerous bug, Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase, or KPC, has been found in American hospitals in 44 states so far. That?s likely an underestimate, since there is no national reporting system to track outbreaks of drug-resistant bacteria at hospitals.
In 2011, KPC came to one of the nation?s flagship research hospitals, the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, known as the NIH. What followed was an outbreak even they still can?t fully explain.
Watch the full story of what happened at NIH and more on the superbug crisis tonight in Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria, starting at 10 p.m. (check local listings). For now, watch a preview of the NIH?s fight in the clip above, and track how they believe the bug may have spread, gathered from their own research, in the interactive below:...