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cord-256303-bpa571ys	Hotez, Peter J.	Will COVID-19 become the next neglected tropical disease?	2020-04-10		.txt	text/plain	564	32	61	The daily World Health Organization (WHO) Coronavirus Situation Reports highlight the rapid spread of COVID-19 across Europe, the United States, and many of the advanced nations in East Asia [1] . If SARS CoV2 becomes a major respiratory virus pathogen in resource-poor countries of the tropics and subtropics, we might envision unprecedented levels of global morbidity and mortality. Accordingly, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases will consider articles from the community of scientists and public health experts in Asia, Africa, and Latin America now shifting their efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. However, as John Lennon once said, "life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans," and on that basis we now invite our community of NTD scientists to submit COVID-19 papers on what may become a global health terror on a scale that rivals or even exceeds some of the world's major neglected tropical diseases.	./cache/cord-256303-bpa571ys.txt	./txt/cord-256303-bpa571ys.txt