Peter Edwards wrote:

 > But this still leaves you on the treadmill of constantly trying to kill
 > varroa.  My original post asked whether any work was being done to
identify
 > variation in susceptibility to viruses.

An analogy here. Malaria exists and we have drugs to fight it, but the
better solution is to eliminate to the extent possible, the carrier.
Otherwise, you consign millions of people to the threat and possible
contraction of the disease and allow the pest free reign, even though
not all mosquitoes carry the disease.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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