at the national institutes of health, the nih, agreed to recount how it dealt with a major kpc outbreak. (siren wailing) it began in the summer of 2011 when a woman carrying kpc was transferred from a new york city hospital, here, to the nih, in bethesda, maryland. >> talking about hospital infections is really difficult for a hospital because what you are saying is that we all know that when you come to the hospital there are certain risks. but we have now laid bare what are those risks. >> narrator: the nih had never treated a case of kpc before. and as the patient was brought into the icu, the staff was determined to keep the kpc from spreading to other patients. >> we immediately went on high alert, the equivalent of