On 27/09/23 02:44, Allen Dick wrote:
> But, I ask, is this not just one study in one yard, in one country, by one researcher, with one type of bee, probably one strain of AFB, one climate, one environment, etc, long ago, that conveniently proves what everyone wants to believe?
The reference to the dangers of wet supers spreading AFB was, I believe,
to some of Mark Goodwin's early work with AFB in NZ, from the 1993
series of articles.
He rewrote some aspects of that series in both 2003 and 2013.
http://www.beekeeping.nz/NZBDA/timeline/1993_Goodwin_AFB_article_series.pdf
http://www.beekeeping.nz/NZBDA/timeline/2003_Goodwin_AFB_article_series.pdf
http://www.beekeeping.nz/NZBDA/timeline/2013_Goodwin_AFB_article_series.pdf
The context is AFB in NZ, where antibiotics are not fed to honeybees for
AFB. The testing that Mark did then (now more than 30 years ago) may
well have been mostly culturing (and costly in time and money, I guess).
I am not aware of any of that work being replicated by others.
Nick Wallingford
Tauranga, NZ
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