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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 11278" data-attributes="member: 13">Realise that we did eradicate covid from our shores, without drugs, twice.Pretty much by using the same method advocated for eradicating AFB. We could not burn the infected people so instead we quarantined them to prevent the spread, and used management techniques among the whole population to minimise spread from one to another if anyone got it.100% effective.However as we "opened up", and the inevitability of a constant and overwhelming stream of new infections entering the country became the reality, a political decision was made to move from eradication, to management of it.I have met commercial beekeepers who just shrug and say we will never eradicate AFB. They have just decided to live with it and do little preventative measures beyond just burning it when they find it, and sometimes they don't even do that very well. They just see it as a cost of doing business. And it is those beekeepers who often have an ongoing problem that they never clean up totally, because of their lackadaisical attitude.Me, I am convinced that if everyone did what they are supposed to do we could be free of AFB in 2 or 3 years, other than the occasional residual infections from abandoned deadouts and similar, which could then have more resources spent on hunting them down. I base that on personal experience seeing outbreaks brought under control and eliminated, if someone has a will to do it.We eradicated covid, looking like we eradicated mycoplasma bovis (despite the naysayers who said it was impossible), we could do it with AFB. Just needs everyone to do their bit, which is the hard part,</blockquote>

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