Bring the troops home...quarantined, please

More drug-resistant body-invading organisms rearing up:

Acinetobacter Baumannii: Coming Soon to a Hospital Near You

Now dubbed "Supergerms", they spread without warning and seemingly
without official notices since they are infections instead of diseases. The
government is taking advantage of this technicality.

Apparently, "diseases" require official CDC notices, but "infections" do not. What is supposed to be the difference between "infection" and "disease" is beyond my current knowledge, especially since the CDC has whole departments for "infectious diseases".

But the crux of it is that this particular bacterium is showing up in military and veterans' hospitals, carried by patients recently returned from Iraq, and it isn't getting reported to the public.

So first I go to the VA hospital and get an infection, then I come back when I'm dying and they experiment on me. So not liking this.

CDC information on Acinetobacter

It seems Acinetobacter has been around for a while. Are we to assume it's always been resistant to common antibiotics, or did it get that way in recent times?