> Yes in a way.  A disorder called 
> Disappearing Disease then hit the US.  It was 
> well documented by Bill 
> Wilson, at the USDA lab in Laramie.  

reply;
Yes it was.

 it  was
> reported in nearly as many states as 
> the current CCD.

reply;
Yes it was.  

 Some of us old timers suspect it was the same as
> we saw in the   70s.  I'm not sure that the event in the 70s was the
> same as the  occassional  reports going back to the turn of the century.  The incidents  in the 70s 
> were the first wide spread occurrences. 

reply;
Yes it was as in 1920a/1930s spread across many states with hives sick and dying. Just like today with big waves rolling thru. 

D-

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