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Summary: Dr. Michael Bell, deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control's division of health care quality promotion, talks about the CDC’s new report on antibiotic resistance, which found that at least 2 million Americans contract diseases caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria every year, and that at least 23,000 die from those infections. This is the first time the effects of these infections have been quantified.