Hi All,
A friend sent me the following paper on bee viruses by Bailey 
http://vir.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/43/3/641.
It's from 1979, but he speaks of strains of Kashmir Bee Virus in Australia 
different from those elsewhere.  The virus killed bees within 3 days after 
injection.

Several parts of the article are of interest, especially the discussion.  He 
raises the question as to whether native species of Aussie bees are 
transmitting viruses to honeybees, and wonders why there appeared to be 
different isolates of KBV from a "comparatively small region."

It appears that we'll all be able to read Lipkin's paper in Sept--don't 
bother trying to get info from him directly.  I don't expect the paper to 
solve CCD--if it did, USDA would have released the info.  But it will be 
very interesting to see Jerry B and the Army fire up their IVDS machine to 
look for whatever Lipkin found by metagenomic analysis.

Food for thought, but we're just gonna have to wait!

Randy Oliver 

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