Johan Calis commented on the increase in AFB in the Netherlands and asked about
control and prevention methods in other countries.
 
A three part article in the American Bee Journal in 1992 (132(6): 399-402;
132(7): 471-475; 132(8): 534-537, 547; Apicultural Abstracts reference 207/93)
answers some of those questions.
 
There are
> diagnostic methods used that can show the presence of spores before the
> disease actually becomes visible, and this area of AFB diagnosis is very
topical in New Zealand and Australia.  See AA274/94.
 
 
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