PBS NewsHour blog discusses curable, preventable neglected tropical diseases with CDC experts

In this video report, PBS NewsHour's "The Rundown" examines curable and preventable diseases such as measles and river blindness that countries are focusing more effort on fighting. Mark Eberhardt, a neglected tropical diseases expert at the CDC, and Stephen Cochi, a measles and polio expert from the CDC, "describe the diseases and why they still need attention." "'They are often ignored,' [Eberhardt] told the NewsHour's Hari Sreenivasan. 'There was often thought to be very little that could be done for them which has led to neglect from the scientific community and even the local population,'" the news blog notes (Rogo, 2/20).