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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NickWallingford" data-source="post: 13751" data-attributes="member: 44">OK, I know now I'll have to look up the reference I'm thinking of...It related to the piece of brood comb that is kept securely and, once a year, cultured to confirm the AFB spores are still able to germinate (?) and propagate.It was, I think, a New York state bee inspector who had taken the sample as part of a court case against some beekeeper.  And (I think it went) after the legal stuff was over, they just kept it - and that is the story of why/how we can say that AFB spores can survive for so long.*Somewhere* I read the story, maybe written from the point of view of someone who had worked in the lab?  It isn't in my own archives, so I'll have to go further a field to re-find it...</blockquote>

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