Dr. Arjun Srinivasan is a Medical Epidemiologist at the CDC in Atlanta, and his work involves diagnosing and and stopping outbreaks of infectious diseases. Join Dr. Shira Johnson as she interviews him to learn why a virulent strain of the well known MRSA microcrobe is on the rise in the community at this time. Are we effective in our approach to the new epidemic of antibiotic resistance in this organism? And why did it occur?