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Re: AFB infection rates
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Robert Brenchley <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 24 Dec 2001 19:04:13 EST
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    George Imirie writes:

<<The entire inspection idea was conceived by my mentor,
Dr. James I. Hambleton, Chief Apiarist of the Federal Government Dept. of
Agriculture.  The program was announced in 1922 and the whole idea at that
time was to control the
spread of American Foul Brood, then infecting 1/3 of all the colonies in the
U. S.
The inspection program reduced the average annual infection rate of AFB
colonies to
less than 2% nationwide.>>

    Does anyone know why the infection rate rose so high?


Regards,

Robert Brenchley

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Birmingham, UK.

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