---
title: "Harvard Public Health Op-Ed: Superbugs and Hurricanes"
description: AMR Action Fund CEO Henry Skinner, PhD, highlights the urgent need for effective antibiotics to prevent health system crises in Harvard Public Health.
---

 November 13, 2024

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# Harvard Public Health Op-Ed: Superbugs and Hurricanes

"Each major hurricane that has made landfall in recent years has had infectious fallout," writes AMR Action Fund CEO Henry Skinner, PhD, in an op-ed in Harvard Public Health about the increased frequency of major flooding, and the inability of aging infrastructure-and particularly wastewater treatment operations-to handle such events.

"It is imperative that clinicians in flooded areas have access to effective antibiotics, not just a few old generics that may not be appropriate for the situation at hand," he writes. "If a hurricane triggers a localized outbreak of a drug-resistant pathogen, the results could overwhelm entire health systems"

[Read the full op-ed here.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/policy-practice/superbugs-and-hurricanes-whats-the-connection/)

 

  

 

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