In the past decade, many of our country's biggest breakthroughs in preventing deadly infections in hospitals and other healthcare settings have come from the great work of the scientists here at CDC. In this Director's Briefing video, CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, talks about new CDC research on MRSA, a serious healthcare-associated infection. Scientists studied 74,000 patients and found two simple solutions that can cut deadly infections by MRSA and other dangerous germs by nearly half. Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: http://www.cdc.gov/SocialMedia/Tools/CommentPolicy.html This video can also be viewed at http://streaming.cdc.gov/vod.php?id=9979306b859c5fc58a0dae7a630f7c8c20130530134936968