"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.
