Roger Morse once told me of a means to 'cure' a 'light' case of AFB.  I have
had occassion to try it a few times and it always worked.

When finding a hive with only one frame of AFB or only a few cells, burn all
the frames in the hive and replace with foundation.  Give the hive at least
2 frames of honey/pollen from another AFB free hive.  Shake all of the bees
from the brood frames back into the hive.  Walk away.

This action essentially creates an artificial swarm.  Roger explained that
any spores in the bees would be locked into the wax as it is drawn out.  He
also said some reseachers had tried this, and found an occurance of AFB,
presumably from spores located on the hive body.  He said this was highly
unlikely 'in the real world'.  (Roger was great at the 'real world' kind of
beekeeping.  Part of what made Roger so great is that he was a (real)
beekeeper up until the end.  Even after retirement he annually produced a
couple of hundred Ross Rounds to give to friends as Xmas presents.)  Today I
doubt there are many Entomology department heads that have beehives at
home...but I digress.

I have done this three times, in perhaps 25 years.  Each time it was
entirely successful.  No recurrance of AFB in that hive, and no more in the
yard.  No treatment.

Dunno if it would work for  you, but there would seem to be little harm in
trying as long as  you watched the hive closely.

Lloyd

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