FWIW, Shortly after I had penned, “Transfer of Antibiodic Effectiveness
from China to Americas and Europe”, http://listserv.albany.edu:8080/cgi-
bin/wa?A2=ind0212C&L=bee-l&P=R184 , a very experienced and knowledgeable
beekeeper contacted me offline and advised me that chloramphenicol is used
in China for quite another purpose and not as a treatment for either
American Foulbrood or European Foulbrood.  It appears that since honey
bees frequently visit certain sources of waste water to take up moisture
that are more frequently found in certain parts of China and other less
developed regions of the World than here in the United States and Canada,
chloramphenicol is necessary to use as a "weapon" for the survival of
honey bee larvae. Since then I have learned from two different sources
additional sources that the above statement has a fairly accurate chance
of being true. Perhaps by posting,  this may bring out into the open the
unvarnished truth about an extremely small percentage of the whole that
are practicing such methods of treatment in certain parts of the world,
and I am told that it isn’t just China.  I certainly would like to know
quotable facts from more than just the horses mouth.

Regards,

Chuck Norton
Reidsville, NC

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