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Date: | Tue, 24 Oct 1995 23:38:53 -0400 |
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> Don,
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> In a recent message you wrote:
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> > John
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> > It seems to me that the USDA has no facilities for virus testing, since
> > they just hired Anderson from Australia to do their virus testing recently.
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> > Don Tinker
> > HCR2 Box 9563
> > Keaau, HI 96749
> > [log in to unmask]
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> You haven't been reading your American Bee Journals. Drs. Hachiro Shiminuki
> and Akey Hung from the Beltsville Bee Lab with Jean Adams (whose title I do
> not know) from the Beltsville Insect Biocontrol Laboratory published an
> article on bee viruses in the October ABJ. Earlier the Bee lab did a survey
> of bee viruses around the United States. At our Maryland State Beekeepers
> Assn. spring meeting in April this year, Dr. Shiminuki told us that the
> Beltsville Bee Lab is one of three in the world that is qualified to identify
> bee viruses.
>
> So, the answer is, yes, they are qualified to do virus testing.
>
> Regards,
> David Morris, President
> Maryland State Beekeepers Assn.
>
DAVE: U shud bee sleeping at this hour and
not sending email. I'd be in bed except that
I could never get on today until now, when
U R on. -:)
John Iannuzzi PhD * "Singing masons building roofs
9772 Old Annapolis Rd * of gold." --Shakespeare
Ellicott City MD 21042 usa * 20 Italian colonies
[log in to unmask] * 3-1/2 decades in beedom
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