UTMB researchers have created a safe and effective chikungunya vaccine by using an insect-specific virus. "This vaccine offers efficient, safe and affordable protection against chikungunya and builds the foundation for using viruses that only infect insects to develop vaccines against other insect-borne diseases," Scott Weaver said in the story. This news also reported in The Times of India, The Quint, IFLScience, Medical News Today and Science Daily.