>.  Who knows, maybe this will be an exception.

Too late to find out now. The plan would have had to been set in place many 
years ago.

Albert Einstein when asked about a possible polar shift being a cause of the 
dinosaurs being frozen with fresh grass in their stomachs said a polar shift 
could have happened based on physics.

After being raised in a time when burning all hives with AFB did not stop 
the losses. Then at the darkest moment in beekeeping history a drug saved 
the industry was discovered at a university in Missouri I can attest to the 
destructive nature of AFB>

Although we will never know for sure I (like Einstein felt about the 
possibility of a polar shift) believe that the plan to place the foulbrood 
tainted feed in the remote area *could* have stopped the progress and all 
hives moving through the area would die within months.

Swarms (if any) which made it through *would not* carry a new resistant AFB 
( as Keith suggests) but the bees would simply be resistant to the AFB which 
is common the world over. Rothenbular, Tabor , Purvis and others have said 
bees which can survive AFB could be bred although no one to my knowledge has 
come up with such a bee.
From my personal experience ( 48 years beekeeping) I see a bee able to 
function normally with AFB as a pipe dream. I have looked over many attempts 
by others but never had the interest to keep a hive with AFB around the 
place.

Tabor kept hives around with AFB for decades ( personal conversation with 
Tabor)  trying to find a bee to tolerate AFB but no hive can thrive (in my 
opinion) with such a loss of workers as even light cases of AFB can cause.

bob 

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