hospital only to be made more ill. >> doctors are powerless to fight the bacteria raging through josh's body. >> what we're seeing now, and it's really concerning, is there's a growing list of gram negative bacteria that are resistant to many, if not most, antibiotics. and we have no drugs to treat these patients with. >> josh dies at 27. here's one way infections spread. >> one patient may have an infection, and a nurse or a doctor is caring for both of them. i go in and i examine them or i touch them, and my hands get contaminated. i then don't wash my hands and go talk to the second patient or examine the second patient. and i introduce that infection into that second patient. and in many senses we're no different than a mosquito causing malaria. we're, you know, a vector