Ebola Update 2014: Tropical Diseases That Kill Thousands Each Year Forgotten Amid West Africa Outbreak

The world's resources are currently earmarked to fight Ebola, which limits governments' capacity to respond to other dire diseases in the meantime. As a consequence, the ongoing Ebola outbreak is threatening progress made against the world's neglected tropical diseases, according to health officials. In disease endemic countries where resources are already scarce, health services are being deployed to the Ebola front line -- and in effect, curtailing programs for neglected tropical diseases.