“IMHO, far more sampling needs to be done to see just how long the virus 
has 
been in the US, how widespread it is, whether it was spread much through 
the 
use of priming queen cells with royal jelly, or by Aussie imports, or 
indirectly from Canada.”  Randy Oliver

Randy, could you shed some light on how sampling at this point could help 
determine how long the virus has been in the US, or for that matter how it 
could help determine anything that happened in the past?  I don’t see, for 
example, how sampling bees now could determine the means by which the virus 
was spread a year or more ago.

Steve Noble 

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