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>I would wonder if the targeted virus would mutate in response to the
treatment and then what? Is that a reasonable question?

The targeted viruses already mutate constantly, and at a very high rate.  By
the time an individual bee dies from a virus infection, that virus has
already mutated to hundreds of forms in the bee's own body.  This process
occurs naturally, and completely independent of treatment.

Remebee is simply copies of short portions of the naturally-occurring virus,
analogous to human vaccines.  Remebee only kick starts the natural antivirus
response, and requires the preexisting presence of actual virus to be fully
effective.

These are all good questions, and most have been investigated.

Remebee is considered to be food grade.  If you were to eat a handful of
typical bee pupae, you would ingest all the components of Remebee, as they
already exist in normal hives, which already contain low-level infections of
several viruses.

Randy Oliver

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