I would submit this is another case of people trying to exploit the problem of honey bee disease. Look at this:

> Replikins are the only conserved structures of infectious organisms described to date which correlate quantitatively and temporally with epidemic outbreaks, course, and lethality, and permit early or advance warning of such outbreaks.

Right there, they fail. CCD is not an epidemic.

PLB

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