The MSS Parallel meeting is an annual parallel meeting of the MSS Specialty Group on Detectors, the MSS Specialty Group on Passive Sensors, the MSS Specialty Group on Materials and the MSS Specialty Group on Battlefield Survivability and Discrimination.
![An Anopheles stephensi mosquito is obtaining a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis. Note the droplet of blood being expelled from the abdomen after having engorged itself on its host’s blood. This mosquito is a known malarial vector with a distribution that ranges from Egypt all the way to China. (source: Wikipedia and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library [PHIL])](https://www.dsiac.org/sites/default/files/styles/related_content/public/thumbs/wiki_anopheles_mosquito_malaria_o.jpg?itok=6jDb2Qpx&sc=2a273c2886073d2a18d79499e4255a96 "An Anopheles stephensi mosquito is obtaining a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis. Note the droplet of blood being expelled from the abdomen after having engorged itself on its host’s blood. This mosquito is a known malarial vector with a distribution that ranges from Egypt all the way to China. (source: Wikipedia and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library [PHIL])")
