Walter
> Do you folks have something similar or is it buyer beware and as a result 
> of
> the latter you have large outbreaks in certain areas.

Buyer beware, but we get very few large outbreaks of foulbrood.  The last 
one of any note was in 2002 when a commercial beekeeper in the Midlands lost 
the plot completely - he had AFB, but used the boxes where colonies had died 
to make up splits.  165 colonies had to be destroyed.
Best wishes

Peter Edwards
beekeepers at stratford-upon-avon.freeserve.co.uk
www.stratford-upon-avon.freeserve.co.uk/

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