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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 11227" data-attributes="member: 207">It's not eliminating the AFB that is a problem for me, but stopping people from giving it back again.Unfortunately a lot of AFB is just a numbers game and if you have a lot of hives then given time you almost certain to get a visit from the robber fairy.People with only a few hives are much less likely to get the visit but when they do it can turn out to be a real and ongoing mess for a while as they often don't have the best skills for dealing with it. Having said that I know plenty of commercial beekeepers who are also lacking in the skills needed.These days when I run educational field days on disease control I have gone away from an emphasis on AFB to an emphasis on healthy brood because that is what most people will see the vast majority of the time. Knowing what brood should look like as the first and perhaps most important step in knowing what brood shouldn't look like.</blockquote>

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