> As I said before on BEE-L AHb does not scare me! Not to discredit Lloyd's
> story but have taken twice as many stings from EHB on several occasions!

EHB have been responsible for serious stinging incidents, AFAIK, since the
beginning of time.  Such events have been infrequent, but very real.  They
still are, AHB or no AHB, AFAIK, however the advent of AHB changes such
occurrences from being understood as unexplained and random incidents to
being perceived as expected and predicted events.

As to the frequency, there *may* be an increase, or may not.  I do not know.
Seems to me that I heard that there was no statistically significant
increase in deaths from bee stings in newly colonized AHB areas in the USA
over what was measured before under EHB, that could not be explained by
changes in human populations and other factors.

Anybody have the facts?

allen

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