>>I said a long time ago that the overt symptoms of CCD
meant that this "just has to be a virus".  It spread
too quickly and hit to hard to be anything less than
a virus.

Has the possibility of a fungus been ruled out completely?  Some of the [earlier] CCD reports mentioned bee samples covered by unusual 'mold.'  There was a speculation they could have succombed to a fungus.

I think either a virus or a fungus could have been slowly spreading w/o overt symptoms over some time only to 'bloom' when the bees' weakened immune systems allowed it to explode in numbers.  It's a sea of germs out there that normally does not threaten the host unless it's been weakened.  

Waldemar

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