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> The next questions in such a case where infection clearly comes from
outside, are
> 1.) what amount of breakdown was seen in the neighbouring 'clean' hives
and 2.)what were the affected beekeepers able to do to keep from spreading
the > acquired infection through their own hives.
Know of one case, not the one I mentioned previously, of a beekeeper having
a 70% infection rate. I had a case of 20 hives on one site with 100%
infection rate.
In my case as I had a barrier system in place it was quite easy to keep the
infection in place. I had picked it up early so did not spread it to other
apiaries. Killed off the hives and irradiated the gear that I wanted to
salvage.
For the other beekeeper he destroyed the hives, irradiated the gear kept and
for the remaining hives kept them apart from his other hives. There were a
few more that came down with AFB and again destruction and irradiation.
After a year no more showed up. This is typical of how Australian
beekeepers, except for Tasmanians, deal with AFB and it works.
Trevor Weatherhead
Australia
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