> Don,
>
> In a recent message you wrote:
> >
> >   John
> >
> >  It seems to me that the USDA has no facilities for virus testing, since
> > they just hired Anderson from Australia to do their virus testing recently.
> >
> > Don Tinker
> > HCR2 Box 9563
> > Keaau, HI 96749
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>
> You haven't been reading your American Bee Journals.  Drs. Hachiro Shiminuki
> and Akey Hung from the Beltsville Bee Lab with Jean Adams (whose title I do
> not know) from the Beltsville Insect Biocontrol Laboratory published an
> article on bee viruses in the October ABJ.  Earlier the Bee lab did a survey
> of bee viruses around the United States.  At our Maryland State Beekeepers
> Assn. spring meeting in April this year, Dr. Shiminuki told us that the
> Beltsville Bee Lab is one of three in the world that is qualified to identify
> bee viruses.
>
> So, the answer is, yes, they are qualified to do virus testing.
>
> Regards,
> David Morris, President
> Maryland State Beekeepers Assn.
>
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