Abstract
Tropical diseases are considered a public health problem despite advances in the sanitary control of some of them; the situation may change due to the detour of financial resources to address COVID-19, an emerging pandemic disease, capable of causing severe acute respiratory failure syndrome in the human host. Based on the literature review, this opinion is issued in order to alert the world scientific community about this situation.
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