Jerry:

> My 1940's Hive and the Honey Bee describes Disappearing Disease, not as 
> bees
> disappearing, but as the disease that disappears!  So, just because  the
> title of a paper says Disappearing Disease doesn't mean that it was 
> defined  as
> bees disappearing.  I've seen the term used both ways in some of the old 
> papers.

Many thanks for the info.  In the UK, European foulbrood has been known as 
disappearing disease as it tends to appear when there is a strong flow but 
can then disappear later.
Best wishes

Peter Edwards
beekeepers at stratford-upon-avon.freeserve.co.uk
www.stratford-upon-avon.freeserve.co.uk/

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