www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 334 9 DECEMBER 2011 1317 COVER Scanning electron micrograph of a female Anopheles stephensi mosquito, a transmitter of malaria (proboscis length: ~0.6 millimeters). To drive malaria eradication, new medicines that target all stages of the malaria life cycle are needed. In their study, Meister et al. used thousands of A. stephensi mosquitos to identify chemical cla...

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 334 9 DECEMBER 2011 1317 COVER Scanning electron micrograph of a female Anopheles stephensi mosquito, a transmitter of malaria (proboscis length: ~0.6 millimeters). To drive malaria eradication, new medicines that target all stages of the malaria life cycle are needed. In their study, Meister et al. used thousands of A. stephensi mosquitos to identify chemical cla...

Chikungunya fever is a mosquito-borne febrile illness caused by Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an alphavirus from the Togaviridae family. It is transmitted by primarily Aedes aegytpi and Aedes albopictus mosquitos [1]. Once of little importance in the Americas, local transmission was identified in the Caribbean in late 2013. More than 1000 travelers returning to the continental United States have b...