Cover photograph (Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.): Photograph of a wild boar. Wild boars have become very abundant in Germany, where they constitute an important hunting bag. Case reports of Streptococcus suis meningitis in European hunters have suggested transmission of S. suis through butchering of wild boars. In this issue, Baums et al. show that wild boars in northwestern Germany frequently carry potentially human-pathogenic cps2⁺ S. suis strains. The putative zoonotic potential of these cps2⁺ wild boar strains is supported by the finding that they were almost indistinguishable in different genotyping approaches from a meningitis strain isolated from a hunter who was infected with S. suis after butchering a wild boar. Results indicate a wildlife reservoir of S. suis. Photo by Gregor Schlaeger. (See related article on page 711.)