Strange no one has made the connection between these two, since "cures" for AFB infected equipment has to be the ''Mother" of all urban legends. "Chlorine bleach", "wax seals", "brisk scrubbing" "steam jennies", "lye baths", the list is endless, about as effective as soapy water, and constantly being reinvented by newbies who either won't (can't) learn from the past or haven't bothered to check it out. ETO, radiation, wax moths and the long term heating of melted wax, on the other hand, only work under certain narrow constraints. Each "may" inactivate, kill or destroy AFB spores under certain conditions, but then they also "may not" outside of those narrow constraints. Then again there is always that other urban beekeeping myth, that TM "cures" AFB. Rip